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 A CODE OF MORALS

Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order.

And hied away to the Hurrum Hills above the Afghan border,

To sit on a rock with a heliograph; but ere he left he taught

His wife the working of the Code that sets the miles at naught.

And Love had made him very sage, as Nature made her fair;

So Cupid and Apollo linked, per heliograph, the pair.

At dawn, across the Hurrum Hills, he flashed her counsel wise—

At e'en, the dying sunset bore her husband's homilies.

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