Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
Epigrams: With a Pair of Gloves Lost in a Wager
By James Russell Lowell (18191891)W
And I should hint sharp practice if I dared;
For was not she beforehand sure to gain
Who made the sunshine we together shared?