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The Betrothed

A Poem by Rudyard Kipling

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- Breach of Promise Case, Circa 1885 -

Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout,
 For things are running crossways, and Maggie and I are out.

We quarrelled about Havanas—we fought o’er a good cheroot,
 And I knew she is exacting, and she says I am a brute.

Open the old cigar-box—let me consider a space;
 In the soft blue veil of the vapour musing on Maggie’s face.

Maggie is pretty to look at—Maggie’s a loving lass,
 But the prettiest cheeks must wrinkle, the truest of loves must pass.

There’s peace in a Larranaga, there’s calm in a Henry Clay;
 But the best cigar in an hour is finished and thrown away—

Thrown away for another as perfect and ripe and brown—
 But I could not throw away Maggie for fear o’ the talk o’ the town!


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