Her eyes are as stars on a moonlit night.

(Sing Hey! Sing Ho! for the sweet Sage Green!)

The China plate it is pure on the wall.

(The Peacock blue has a sacred sheen!)

Alack! she heedeth it never at all.

(Sing Hey! Sing Ho! for the sweet Sage Green!)

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The Public House.

(With apologies to
Oscar Wilde’s “The Harlot’s House.”
)