Mirror of Literature,  4 (1824), 384.

On the Marriage of a Tailor's Daughter with a Barber's Boy

Anon

Genre:

Epigram

Subjects:

Magnetism


    'The tailor's daughter took the barber's boy / To be the partner of her grief and joy. / What force the power of Nature can control, / For still the needle turns towards the pole.'



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