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First Line: In the muscadine-glowing noon
Last Line: And shakes her curls, as pearly as their shells!


IN the muscadine-glowing noon
Under the arcade
Shaped like a cascade --
Where the shadows creep like a pantaloon --
The Abbe finished his rhodomontade.
"Madame la Marquise,
If you please,
When I must play with old ladies, ombre
In Hades' shady bocage sombre --
Let me, though I am old,
Still perceive your gold
Fruit-sweet cheeks' brocade,
Smiling among that peaceful shade. . . ."
But the Marquise in the bocage,
Laughs like the sharp rockage
Of her gallant grottoes, cold as water-wells,
And shakes her curls, as pearly as their shells!





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