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- FOR ANNE GREGORY
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- "NEVER shall a young man,
- Thrown into despair
- By those great honey-coloured
- Ramparts at your ear,
- Love you for yourself alone
- And not your yellow hair.'
- "But I can get a hair-dye
- And set such colour there,
- Brown, or black, or carrot,
- That young men in despair
- May love me for myself alone
- And not my yellow hair.'
- "I heard an old religious man
- But yesternight declare
- That he had found a text to prove
- That only God, my dear,
- Could love you for yourself alone
- And not your yellow hair."
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