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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

Henry Austin Dobson. b. 1840

825. Urceus Exit Triolet

I INTENDED an Ode, 
  And it turn’d to a Sonnet 
It began à la mode, 
I intended an Ode; 
But Rose cross’d the road         5
  In her latest new bonnet; 
I intended an Ode; 
  And it turn’d to a Sonnet.