AMBITION.

AMBITION.
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When Margaret Green was about seven-tech
Her plans and her specifications
Of the man who would share all her joy and her care
Were accurate, nice calculations.
Miss Margaret sald: “The man that I wed
Must be tall and aesthetle and curving;
The popuine rage on the matinee stage.
With a name like Montgomery Irving.”

When Margaret grew to about twenty- two-
A sweet, sentimental-like siren-
She yearned for the fame of an author whose name
Was Tennyson Kents Shelly-Byron. In a year or so more-she was then twenty-four-
It was Margaret’s dearest ambition
To marry a Pole with less money than soul-
Bassclefsky, the famous musician.

Ten years how they fly!-went glimmer- Ing by.
And Margaret came to be thirty.
She still was a miss in her singular bliss,
But no longer coquettish and flirty.
Three more years of her life and Maggie’s a wife
After all of her plannin and guessin’
Nor does she repine that the name on the sigu
Of the store says Schmidt. Delicatessen.
-Franklin P. Adams.