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To Fashion
by Oliver HerfordFashion! Lovely Dame!
Pledge in sparkling wine!
Let us add her name
To the Muses' nine!
Though the lovely Nin
All should pass away
Why should Woman pine,
If but Fashion stay?
Tho' the Muses' lore
Molder on the shelf,
Still may She adore
In Fashion's glass--Herself.