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Ladies of leisure, with their eyes on the back roads -
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All looking for strangers, to whom they extend welcomes
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With a smile and a glimpse of pink knees and elbows;
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Of satin and velvet - good ladies, good fortune.
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Ladies. Ladies.
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They sing of their heroes: of solitary soldiers
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Invested in good health and manner most charming.
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Whose favors are numbered (none the less well intended)
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By hours in a minute; by those ladies who bless them.
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Ladies.