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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SKEIN OF ZEPHYR; RONDEAU, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: In a quaint queen anne chair
Last Line: "so I warn you, youths, beware / a skein of zephyr!"
Subject(s): Flirtation
First Line: In a quaint queen anne chair
Last Line: "so I warn you, youths, beware / a skein of zephyr!"
Subject(s): Flirtation
IN a quaint Queen Anne chair,
Dressed in silk and laces rare,
AEsthetic from her eyes of blue
Down to her high-heeled buckled shoe,
A maiden sat, oh, wondrous fair!
A youth sat idly in the glare
Of a lamp of antique ware,
Holding, as many others do,
A skein of zephyr.
She with a graceful, languid air
Wound the zephyr ball with care,
And as the soft ball larger grew,
Into her toils his heart she drew;
So I warn you, youths, beware
A skein of zephyr!
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