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My mother bids me dye my hair
The fashionable hue;
And change my chataigne locks with care
To red—through green, or blue!
“You can’t,” she cries, “my dear, do less—
Or what will people say?”
But, ah! I only wish that Piesse
And Lubin were away!
[An interval of two years is supposed to elapse.]