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First Line: What can I find in the city shops
Last Line: To piddle in his mother's lap?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Cupid; Mothers; Eros


What can I find in the city shops,
To please your pretty eyes to-night;
A lovely gown that's made of silk,
Soft to the hand, and gossamer-light?
A little book with silver clasps,
With golden words on all its pages?
Two bowls of glass, wherein the lights
Flit here and there, like birds in cages?
A dog to wind up like a clock,
That's made to growl, and then to yap?
Or Cupid as a fountain, made
To piddle in his mother's lap?





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