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MY NEIGHBOUR'S CURTAINS by ALFRED DE MUSSET

Poem Explanation

First Line: MY CHARMING NEIGHBOUR'S CURTAIN / IS MOVING, I DECLARE
Last Line: TIS BY THE WIND, NO DOUBT!
Subject(s): LOVE - UNREQUITED; NEIGHBORS; WINDOW TREATMENTS; VENETIAN BLINDS; CURTAINS; SHADES; DRAPES;

My charming neighbour's curtain
Is moving, I declare:
She's coming—I feel certain—
To woo the evening air.

She wishes to discover,
(Oh how my heart doth beat!)
If I her well-dressed lover
Am watching in the street.

Alas! I am mistaken—
She loves a country lout—
And if her curtain's shaken
'Tis by the wind, no doubt!



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