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She cannot do these things, nor one or two

Others, in that off-hand and dashing style

Which takes so much⁠—to give the Devil his due;

Nor is she quite so ready with her smile,

Nor settles all things in one interview,

(A thing approved as saving time and toil);⁠—

But though the soil may give you time and trouble,

Well cultivated, it will render double.