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ON ERNEST DOWSON'S AUNT by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR

First Line: O GRAND OLD LADY, HOW YOU HATE
Last Line: AND WERE AS CURATES DEIFIED.
Subject(s): AUNTS; DOWSON, ERNEST (1867-1900); GENIUS; JEALOUSY;

O grand Old Lady, how you hate
Your nephew's genius and his fate!
Finer it were if nephews died
And were as @3Curates@1 deified.



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