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TACT.
The maid would reward him,—
Gay company come;
They laugh, she laughs with them;
He is moonstruck and dumb.
This clinches the bargain;
Sails out of the bay;
Gets the vote in the senate,
Spite of Webster and Clay;
Has for genius no mercy,
For speeches no heed;
It lurks in the eyebeam,
It leaps to its deed.
Church, market, and tavern,
Bed and board, it will sway.
It has no to-morrow;
It ends with to-day.
