HOW TO MAKE AN ORDINARY LOVE POEM.

Take two large and tender human hearts, which match one another

perfectly. Arrange these close together, but preserve them from actual

contact by placing between them some cruel barrier. Wound them both in

several places, and insert through the openings thus made a fine

stuffing of wild yearnings, hopeless tenderness, and a general

admiration for stars. Then completely cover up one heart with a

sufficient quantity of chill church-yard mould, which may be garnished

according to taste with dank waving weeds or tender violets: and

promptly break over it the other heart.

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