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A Game of FivesFive little girls, of Five, Four, Three, Two, One: Rolling on the hearthrug, full of tricks and fun.Five rosy girls, in years from Ten to Six: Sitting down to lessons—no more time for tricks.Five growing girls, from Fifteen to Eleven: Music, Drawing, Languages, and food enough for seven!Five winsome girls, from Twenty to Sixteen: Each young man that calls, I say “Now tell me which you mean!”Five dashing girls, the youngest Twenty-one: But, if nobody proposes, what is there to be done?Five showy girls—but Thirty is an age When girls may be engaging, but they somehow don’t engage.Five dressy girls, of Thirty-one or more: So gracious to the shy young men they snubbed so much before!* * * *Five passé girls—Their age?  Well, never mind! We jog along together, like the rest of human kind: But the quondam “careless bachelor” begins to think he knows The answer to that ancient problem “how the money goes”!

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