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From his shoulder Hiawatha	A
Took the camera of rosewood	B
Made of sliding folding rosewood	B
Neatly put it all together	C
In its case it lay compactly	D
Folded into nearly nothing	E
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But he opened out the hinges	F
Pushed and pulled the joints and hinges	F
Till it looked all squares and oblongs	F
Like a complicated figure	C
In the Second Book of Euclid	G
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This he perched upon a tripod	H
Crouched beneath its dusky cover	C
Stretched his hand enforcing silence	F
Said Be motionless I beg you	I
Mystic awful was the process	F
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All the family in order	C
Sat before him for their pictures	F
Each in turn as he was taken	J
Volunteered his own suggestions	F
His ingenious suggestions	F
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First the Governor the Father	C
He suggested velvet curtains	F
Looped about a massy pillar	C
And the corner of a table	D
Of a rosewood dining table	D
He would hold a scroll of something	E
Hold it firmly in his left hand	K
He would keep his right hand buried	L
Like Napoleon in his waistcoat	L
He would contemplate the distance	F
With a look of pensive meaning	E
As of ducks that die ill tempests	F
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Grand heroic was the notion	J
Yet the picture failed entirely	D
Failed because he moved a little	D
Moved because he couldn't help it	L
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Next his better half took courage	M
SHE would have her picture taken	J
She came dressed beyond description	J
Dressed in jewels and in satin	J
Far too gorgeous for an empress	F
Gracefully she sat down sideways	F
With a simper scarcely human	J
Holding in her hand a bouquet	L
Rather larger than a cabbage	M
All the while that she was sitting	E
Still the lady chattered chattered	L
Like a monkey in the forest	L
Am I sitting still she asked him	N
Is my face enough in profile	D
Shall I hold the bouquet higher	C
Will it came into the picture	C
And the picture failed completely	D
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Next the Son the Stunning Cantab	O
He suggested curves of beauty	D
Curves pervading all his figure	C
Which the eye might follow onward	L
Till they centered in the breast pin	P
Centered in the golden breast pin	P
He had learnt it all from Ruskin	P
Author of 'The Stones of Venice '	-
'Seven Lamps of Architecture '	-
'Modern Painters ' and some others	F
And perhaps he had not fully	D
Understood his author's meaning	E
But whatever was the reason	J
All was fruitless as the picture	C
Ended in an utter failure	C
	-
Next to him the eldest daughter	C
She suggested very little	D
Only asked if he would take her	C
With her look of 'passive beauty '	-
	-
Her idea of passive beauty	D
Was a squinting of the left eye	Q
Was a drooping of the right eye	Q
Was a smile that went up sideways	F
To the corner of the nostrils	F
	-
Hiawatha when she asked him	N
Took no notice of the question	J
Looked as if he hadn't heard it	L
But when pointedly appealed to	L
Smiled in his peculiar manner	C
Coughed and said it 'didn't matter '	-
Bit his lip and changed the subject	L
	-
Nor in this was he mistaken	J
As the picture failed completely	D
	-
So in turn the other sisters	F
	-
Last the youngest son was taken	J
Very rough and thick his hair was	F
Very round and red his face was	F
Very dusty was his jacket	L
Very fidgety his manner	C
And his overbearing sisters	F
Called him names he disapproved of	R
Called him Johnny 'Daddy's Darling '	-
Called him Jacky 'Scrubby School boy '	-
And so awful was the picture	C
In comparison the others	F
Seemed to one's bewildered fancy	D
To have partially succeeded	L
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Finally my Hiawatha	A
Tumbled all the tribe together	C
'Grouped' is not the right expression	J
And as happy chance would have it	L
Did at last obtain a picture	C
Where the faces all succeeded	L
Each came out a perfect likeness	F
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Then they joined and all abused it	L
Unrestrainedly abused it	L
As the worst and ugliest picture	C
They could possibly have dreamed of	R
'Giving one such strange expressions	F
Sullen stupid pert expressions	F
Really any one would take us	F
Any one that did not know us	F
For the most unpleasant people '	-
Hiawatha seemed to think so	F
Seemed to think it not unlikely	D
All together rang their voices	F
Angry loud discordant voices	F
As of dogs that howl in concert	L
As of cats that wail in chorus	F
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But my Hiawatha's patience	F
His politeness and his patience	F
Unaccountably had vanished	L
And he left that happy party	D
Neither did he leave them slowly	D
With the calm deliberation	J
The intense deliberation	J
Of a photographic artist	L
But he left them in a hurry	D
Left them in a mighty hurry	D
Stating that he would not stand it	L
Stating in emphatic language	M
What he'd be before he'd stand it	L
Hurriedly he packed his boxes	F
Hurriedly the porter trundled	L
On a barrow all his boxes	F
Hurriedly he took his ticket	L
Hurriedly the train received him	N
Thus departed Hiawatha	A

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