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THEN DAyY.s DRAGGED BY-1 COVLD NOT WORK, 
MY APT HAD CEASED TO PLEASE: 
MY CIGARETTES LAY UNDISTURBED, 
MY MIND WAS ILL AT EASE; 
I LISTENED FOR THE POSTMAN'S BING, 
AND HOPED—-VET FEARED-TO FIND 
AN ANSWER TO MY MESSAGE,FROM 
THE SHADOW ON THE BLIND? 
“THLS SHADOW ON THE BLIND. 


THE SHADOW 
ON THE 
BLIND. 
; _ FCOLBURN 
ANS ,SCOPNED A MAPBIED LIFE; 
TO TURPMOIL, CABE, AND STRIFE; 
I MADE A HASTY SILHOUETTE, 1 KEPT A PEACEFUL MIND, 
I HEEDED NOT THE PASSERS-BY, MER SHADOW ON THE BLIND 4 
ALTHOUGH "TWAS PAINING HARB, 
NEXT DAY I SENT IT WITH SOME FLOWERS — 
THE SWEETEST 1 COULD FIND,— 
AND ON IT WROTE “I HOPE TO MEET 

ONE NIGHT THERE CAME A LITTLE NOTE~ 
I FOUND IT IN THE HALL:-— 
SHE onLy SENT A LINE OP TWO) 
REQUESTING ME TO CALL:- 
SO NOW IAM A MAPPIED MANS 
I HOPE YOV WILL NOT MIND- 
Nok ENVY ME IF YOU SHOULD SEE Z 
HER SHADOW ON MY BLIND. 




IWAS A JOLLY BACHELOP ONCE, 
I VOWED 1LWOULD NOT LINK My FATE 
50 WITH MY APT AND CIGARETTES, 
JPON & LITTLE CARB; VNTIL I SAW, ONG FATAL NIGHT] 
