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CIRCUMSTANCES by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON

First Line: IT RIPEN'D BY THE RIVER BANKS
Last Line: AND -- WISH THEM AT THE DEVIL!
Subject(s): ORANGES;
IT ripen'd by the river banks,
Where, mask and moonlight aiding,
Dons Blas and Juan play their pranks,
Dark Donnas serenading.

By Moorish damsel it was pluck'd,
Beneath the golden day there;
By swain 'twas then in London suck'd --
Who flung the peel away there.

He could not know in Pimlico,
As little she in Seville,
That @3I@1 should reel upon that peel,
And -- wish them at the devil!



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