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Z IS FOR ZANY by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: WHY DOES A WOMAN CHANGE HER MOODS?
Last Line: THIS WOMAN'S LOVE IS NOW MY ROD!
Subject(s): WOMEN;
Why does a woman change her moods?
That man may have no thought but hers;
When man has silent, unknown dreams,
Oh, how it troubles her with fears:
Her words, what jealous fear they prove --
'A penny for your thoughts, my love.'

When I would think, she laughs and talks,
That I shall know a woman's there;
She stops my hand, when it would write:
I took her for my staff, but swear --
By every devil and every god --
This woman's love is now my rod!



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