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The Ordinary Women

Then from their poverty they rose, From dry catarrhs, and to guitars They flitted Through the palace walls.
They flung monotony behind, Turned from their want, and, nonchalant, They crowded The nocturnal halls.
The lacquered loges huddled there Mumbled zay-zay and a-zay, a-zay. The moonlight Fubbed the girandoles.
And the cold dresses that they wore, In the vapid haze of the window-bays, Were tranquil As they leaned and looked
From the window-sills at the alphabets, At beta b and gamma g, To study The canting curlicues

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