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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 1, 1919
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 1, 1919
Author: Various
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 156.
JANUARY 1, 1919.
TO AN UNKNOWN COLLEAGUE.
_(Inspired by the exchange of Minutes in Government Departments.)_
He was my friend--if friendship's proof Be sympathy profound and sweet; Eight months we toiled beneath one roof, Yet somehow never chanced to meet.
So near and yet so far! I own We may have passed upon the stair; Yet, if we did, we passed unknown; No tremor told me he was there.
He knew not it was I. Alas! With such community of souls That he and I should blindly pass And live as sundered as the poles!
For I, when darkness se