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Juvenilia

damned thin moonlight, worse than gas⁠— “Now in New York”⁠—and so it goes.

Logic a marionette’s, all wrong Of premises; yet in some star A hero!⁠—Where would he belong? But, even at that, what mask bizarre !

Spleen

Sunday: this satisfied procession Of definite Sunday faces; Bonnets, silk hats, and conscious graces In repetition that displaces Your mental self-possession By this unwarranted digression.

Evening, lights, and tea! Children and cats in the alley; Dejection unable to rally Against this dull conspiracy.

And Life, a little bald and gray, Languid, fastidious, and bland, Waits, hat and gloves in hand, Punctilious of tie and suit (Somewhat impatient of

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