Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb

The Poetical works of Charles Lamb.

The Three Friends.

Three young maids in friendship met,

Mary, Martha, Margaret.

Margaret was tall and fair,

Martha shorter by a hair;

If the first excelled in feature,

The other"s grace and ease were greater;

Mary, though to rival both,

In their best gifts equalled both.

They a due proportion kept;

Martha mourned if Margaret wept;

Margaret joyed when any good

She of Martha understood;

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