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EPILOGUE TO 'PROVERBS IN PORCELAIN' by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: HEIGHO! HOW CHILL THE EVENINGS GET!
Last Line: BUT WE, -- WE ARE NOT ALWAYS GAY!

HEIGHO! how chill the evenings get!
Good-night, NINON! -- good-night, NINETTE!
Your little Play is played and finished; --
Go back, then, to your Cabinet!

LOYAL, L'ETOILE! no more to-day!
Alas! they heed not what we say:
They smile with ardour undiminished;
But we, -- we are not always gay!



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