...broth, the gruel, made with care. The milk — is needed. I mourn, yet grimly chuckle, too, When think that, not I, but you, Should be a fixture ; Not I,...When cold half numbs the tortured toes, The frozen ringers. So I perhaps should envy you, With nothing in the world to do But idly dozy. And, disregarding...

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...doctors say, So interfering! I might, perhaps, be less averse To some attractive youthful nurse, And rind her cheering. In weather such as we have had, Your fate may not have been so bad ; In bed onfc lingers When blizzards bite the bluish nose, When cold -half numbs the tortured toes, The frozen...

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