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THE CRIME

Lines to a Lady with Green Eyes:

Shall I decline to whisper pleasant trifles

In that intriguing ear beneath your bob?

Admittedly the music rather stifles

Each new attempt with its symphonic sob.

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Yet but a moment and the night is faded--

So much more dust in memory's muted heap.

And I'll have left you looking rather jaded

To pay my taxi driver and to sleep.

No reason then--or is there? Please, an answer.

Perhaps you'd like to Charleston, would you? Let's.

You're such a truly satisfying dancer--

And what are clever phrases? One forgets.

Shall I decline to whisper pleasant trifles

In that intriguing ear beneath your bob?

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