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Rh Not Tip Ryder, if he starves

Building chimneys, building wharves."

VII

Now this was the manner

Of the building of the chimney.

('T is a good old-timer,

As you, friend John, will own.)

Old man Vail cut the stone;

William Ryder was the builder;

Stanford White was the planner;

And the owner and rhymer

Is Richard Watson Gilder.

"A WORD SAID IN THE DARK"

A RIDDLE OF LOVERS

my fair lady's lovers there were two

Who loved her more than all; nor she, nor they

Guessed which of these loved better, for one way

This had of loving, that another knew.