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DECLASSE by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD

First Line: IT'S QUITE CONCEIVABLE TO ME
Last Line: MOUTHING A WAD OF GUM.
Subject(s): HERESY; HERETICS;
It's quite conceivable to me
(Forgive the awful heresy),
A gentleman may drink a glass
Of wine, nor thereby forfeit class.

The bishop's wife—or your best girl—
Smoking a cigarette,
Though she be not a saint in any sense
May be a lady yet.

But the man or the maid is out of class
From now until kingdom come,
Whom you meet in office or house or street,
Mouthing a wad of gum.



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