To show it isn't opera bouffe,

A moving picture film and scene;

Stage world, with the glue between

The angels' feathers, the devil's hoof

Neither violent nor venene.

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Eheu! The middle of the way too—

Gethsemane and left in the lurch.

Storms frowning up the dying day too,

Bending a weed that was a birch.