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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Under the Wattle

Douglas Brook Wheelton Sladen (1856–1947)

‘WHY should not Wattle do

For Mistletoe?’

Ask’d one—they were but two—

Where wattles grow.

He was her lover, too,

Who urged her so—

‘Why should not Wattle do

For Mistletoe?’

A rose-cheek rosier grew;

Rose-lips breathed low—

‘Since it is here—and You—

I hardly know

Why Wattle should not do.’