THE ORDINARY WOMEN
1 Then from their poverty they rose,
2 From dry catarrhs, and to guitars
3 They flitted
4 Through the palace walls.
5 They flung monotony behind,
6 Turned from their want, and, nonchalant,
7 They crowded
8 The nocturnal halls.
9 The lacquered loges huddled there
10 Mumbled zay-zay and a-zay, a-zay.
11 The moonlight
12 Fubbed the girandoles.
13 And the cold dresses that they wore,
14 In the vapid haze of the window-bays,
15 Were tranquil
16 As they leaned and looked
17 From the window-sills at the alphabets,
18 At beta b and gamma g,
19 To study
20 The canting curlicues
21 Of heaven and of the heavenly script.
22 And there they read of marriage-bed.
23 Ti-lill-o!
24 And they read right long.
25 The gaunt guitarists on the strings
26 Rumbled a-day and a-day, a-day.
27 The moonlight
28 Rose on the beachy floors.
29 How explicit the coiffures became,
30 The diamond point, the sapphire point,
31 The sequins
32 Of the civil fans!
33 Insinuations of desire,
34 Puissant speech, alike in each,
35 Cried quittance
36 To the wickless halls.
37 Then from their poverty they rose,
38 From dry guitars, and to catarrhs
39 They flitted
40 Through the palace walls.
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