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Hello Boys and Girls!
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See how you beam of seeming white,
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Is braided out of seven hued light,
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Yet in those lucid globes no ray,
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By any chance shall break astray,
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Hark, how the rolling surge of sound,
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Arches and spirals circling round,
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Wakes the hush'd spirit through thine ear,
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With music it is heaven to hear!
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With that go fast into the night,
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A moments haste, the slightest fright,
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A curtain rises on the two,
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She's dressed in pink,
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He's dressed in blue.
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With love at every corners turn,
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Delight!
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Good night!
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True love doth burn!
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Mademoiselle Angelique Du Parc is the object upon which the affections of Monsieur Armande Fleurant are fixed at
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the present moment.
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He met her, I believe, while she was attending school in the city last winter,
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and what with accompanying her to matinees,
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taking her to church
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and lingering by her side in the parlor,
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oftentimes in the evening,
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with the gas turned low,
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the heart of Monsieur Fleurant gradually was induced to throb
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only for the pretty lass from Luxembourg.
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She has been very gracious to him
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during all the time that he has devoted himself to her,
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and has seemed to like him so well that there is really no reason
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for doubting that when the climax of the little drama is reached,
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and the question asked, she will droop her eyelids,
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crimson her cheeks with blushes and whisper "Yes!"
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It seems I am busy working on projects that are destined to fly away, by that I mean, a piece be either for a special customer or a variety of publications, and while I am honored and beyond thrilled to be able to create these works for others, when I can create a little piece for my very own collection I am just tickled pink! This is such a piece, I have been trying to finish my Petit Theatre and it's tiny patrons for nearly 2 years now! I would work on it a bit, constructing a wooden shadow box, wallpapering it with 150 year old blue and grey striped silk, wiring it for electricity, weaving a miniscule chandelier, then it was back to "real" work! I smooshed together the teeny Mademoiselle's and Monsieur's, cooked them up and dressed them in my finest bits and scraps and was finally able to finish it up last month!
Note: My next post will be on July 13th, at which time I will share more exciting news!
Adieu, my Lovely Friends, until next we meet!