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First Line: Paint anastasia as a saint
Last Line: Than your quaint silken fan!
Subject(s): Fans


PAINT Anastasia as a saint;
Priscilla as a Puritan,
Holding long lily stalks; but paint
Dear Dolly with a fan!
It is a page wherefrom we read
Each word she has to say;
Learn who may come, and who must speed,
And who may near her stay.
It is a wall as stout as stone,
Where sweet and cold of face,
When in the mood she sits alone
Behind its frill of lace.
'Tis covered thick with blossoms small,
Red-tinted like the morn;
And he who'd dare to scale that wall
Would find each rose a thorn.
Ah, Dolly, Dolly! we confess,
Amongst us all there's not a man,
But knows he's loved a little less
Than your quaint silken fan!






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