Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXLIX. Love And Matrimony.

    O the little rusty, dusty, rusty miller!
    I'll not change my wife for either gold or siller.

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                        Margaret wrote a letter,
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                        For the dusty miller.
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                        Dusty was the kiss
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXIX. Love And Matrimony.

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