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THE IMPROBABILITY.

As I was musing in a grove, all by myself, as I suppos’d, Mv mind did oft-times me reprove, but by no means could be compos'd; At length by chance a friend I met, which caus’d me long to tarry, Of me she did entreat to tell her, when I had a mind to marry.

When saffron grows on every tree, and every stream flow milk and honey, When sugar grows on carrot fields, and usurers refuse money; And countrymen for judges sit, and Michaelmas falls in February, When millers do their tolls forget, O then my love and I’ll be married.

When Shrove-tide falls on Easter week, and Christmas in the month of July, When lawyers plead without a fee, and taylors they deal just and truly, When all deceit is quite put down, and truth by all men is preferred, When Indigo dyes red and brown, O then my love and I’ll be married.

When men and beasts the ocean plow, and fishes in green fields are feeding,