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What She Said About It
Lyrics to Inez and Jane,
Dolores and Ethel and May;
Señoritas distant as Spain,
And damsels just over the way!
It is not that I’m jealous, not that,
Of either Dolores or Jane,
Of some girl in an opposite flat,
Or in one of his castles in Spain.
But it is that, salable prose
Put aside for this profitless strain,
I sit the day darning his hose,
And he sings of Dolores and Jane.
Though the winged horse we know must be free
To “spurn [for the pretty] the plain,”
Should the team-work fall wholly on me
While he soars with Dolores and Jane?
I am neither Dolores nor Jane,
But to lighten a little my life
Might the Poet not spare me a strain
Although I am only his wife!
— Charles Henry Webb (Century Magazine, 1892)
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