Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 545
Somewhere in an edict three thousand yearsoldHe had read this incredible thing:That the law never spared any subject whodaredWear a longer pigtail than the king! … A MESSAGE IN HASTE TO LI-CHING. So he measured the tail of the busy Ah Lee,And away to the palace he flew For an officer grim to accompany himAnd imprison poor Ah Lee Ben Loo. In a dark dungeon cell overhanging th:stream,On the banks of the yellow Hwang-Ho,In a tower sky-high Ah Lee waited to die…
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