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THE FRIVOLOUS GIRL by ANONYMOUS

First Line: HER EYES WERE BRIGHT AND MERRY
Last Line: "WHILE THE GOSSIPS SAY, ""WOULD YOU THINK IT, / OF ONLY A FRIVOLOUS GIRL?"
Subject(s): YOUTH;

HER eyes were bright and merry,
She danced in the mazy whirl;
She took the world in its sunshine,
For she was a frivolous girl.

She dressed like a royal princess,
She wore her hair in a curl;
The gossips said, "What a pity
That she's such a frivolous girl!"

(TWENTY YEARS LATER.)

She's a wife, a mother, a woman,
Grand, noble, and pure as a pearl;
While the gossips say, "Would you think it,
Of only a frivolous girl?"



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