For if they both should meet, they would fall out.
Lili, immortalized by Goethe, was Anna Elizabeth Schönemann, daughter of a Frankfort banker. She was 16 when Goethe first knew her.
Lilian, “little wife” of Aldrich’s poem An Untimely Thought.
“What a hideous fancy to come
As I wait at the foot of the stair,
While Lilian gives the last touch
To her robe or the rose in her hair!
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As the carriage rolls down the dark street
The little wife laughs and makes cheer—