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THE HALL PORTER
- O WILLIAM, aren’t you very tired
- Of always standing at the door,
- Opening and shutting when required:
- Your fate you surely must deplore,
- And long at times for something more?
- But very smart and grand you look,
- I heard Louisa say to Jane
- She never had been quite so took!
- Yet would I not your place retain
- For all the praises one might gain!
