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LOOKING FORWARD by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA

First Line: IF NO ONE EVER MARRIES ME
Last Line: AND BRING HER UP AS MINE.
Subject(s): ORPHANS; SINGLE PEOPLE; FOUNDLINGS; BACHELORS; UNMARRIED PEOPLE;
IF no one ever marries me
I shan't mind very much;
I shall buy a squirrel in a cage
And a little rabbit-hutch:

I shall have a cottage near a wood,
And a pony all my own;
And a little lamb quite clean and tame
That I can take to town:

And when I'm getting really old,
—At twenty-eight or nine—
I shall buy a little orphan-girl
And bring her up as mine.



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