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 HUNTINGTON HOUSE

, Ladies Huntington, your father served, we know.

As aide-de-camp to Washington—you often told us so;

And when you sat you side by side in that ancestral pew,

We knew his ghost sat next the door, and very proud of you.

Ladies, Ladies Huntington, like you there are no more:

Nancy, Sarah, Emily, Louise,—proud maidens four;

Nancy tall and angular, Louise a rosy dear,

And Emily as fine as lace but just a little sere.

What was it, pray, your life within the mansion grand and old,

Four dormers in its gambrel-roof, their shingles grim with mould? 89