I must defer the calculations until later.[20]

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LVI.

They laughed and chatted and explored the house,

With its dark oaken gallery, and flight

Of massy polished stairs, and saw a mouse,

P'raps three or four appalled their wond'ring sight;

But each new comfort gave them fresh delight,

And as they peeped through each dark-curtained door

All seemed so perfectly compact and bright,

Indeed they seemed to like it more and more,

For they had never entered such a house before.

LVII.

The furniture was heavy in its kind,

And all the drap'ry was of sombre shade,

Evidently in days long past designed,

And diamond casements, I before have said,

Looked on a lawn, in richest green arrayed,

And lands beyond unto the distance blue

Where king-cups blossom'd in the silent glade,

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