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THE UNATTAINABLE, by                    
First Line: Tom's album was filled with the pictures of belles
Last Line: "for ""the girl we couldn't kiss."
Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Hearts; Longing; Women; Sorrow; Sadness


TOM'S album was filled with the pictures of belles
Who had captured his manly heart,
From the fairy who danced for the front-row swells
To the maiden who tooled her cart;
But one face as fair as a cloudless dawn
Caught my eye, and I said, "Who's this?"
"Oh, that," he replied, with a skilful yawn,
"Is the girl I couldn't kiss."

Her face was the best in the book, no doubt,
But I hastily turned the leaf,
For my friend had let his cigar go out,
And I knew I had bared his grief:
For caresses we win and smiles we gain
Yield only a transient bliss,
And we're all of us prone to sigh in vain
For "the girl we couldn't kiss."





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