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The Peau De Chagrin Of State Street

    By Oliver Wendell Holmes



    How beauteous is the bond
    In the manifold array
    Of its promises to pay,
    While the eight per cent it gives
    And the rate at which one lives
    Correspond!

    But at last the bough is bare
    Where the coupons one by one
    Through their ripening days have run,
    And the bond, a beggar now,
    Seeks investment anyhow,
    Anywhere!



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