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EVENING SLIPPERS by WINIFRED DAVIDSON

First Line: WHEN DOWN THE MARBLE STEPS GIRLS RAN TONIGHT
Last Line: SHOE BUTTERFLIES BY SHINING MUSIC CHASED.
Subject(s): EVENING; GIRLS; SHOES; SUNSET; TWILIGHT; BOOTS; SNEAKERS; SHOEMAKERS;
When down the marble steps girls ran tonight
Like brilliant birds were their slim shoes of green
Of amber-rose, of mauve, of crimosin,
Shell-fluted with thread-silver . . . lazulite,
Dawn-gold, pale orchid-violet, silver, white!
Why, every girl was shod like some brave queen.
Nay, what famed royal foot has dancetime seen
So evening-slippered . . . blue and bronze and bright?

These graceful girls with feet in velvet shoon,
Those in mosaic doeskins soft encased,
Were flying fairies from the iris moon:
@3Titanias@1 all -- their feet by flowers embraced.
They danced . . . shoe petals blown upon a tune --
Shoe butterflies by shining music chased.



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