Twenty little maidens
Sighing at a hop,
Wishing twenty fellows
Would come there to stop.
Twenty dapper clerklings
Sitting in a row,
Dipping pens in ink-stands,
Much would like to go.
Ah! this world’s an odd one,
Things don’t even up;
When we want a quartful,
We only get a cup.
(1600)
=Inexperience Re-enforced=--See ENCOURAGEMENT.