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There was a boy at Hampton Wick, Whose name, as it happened, was Cicero Brick; He fell in love in desperate fashion With a girl who fully returned his passion.

But she had a father who said, “No, no! What! marry a boy named Cicero? Never, with my consent, my dear!”-- What happened next we soon shall hear.

The daughter wept till the father said, “Cicero Brick and you may wed When he has spoken an oration To an enormous congregation!”