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Only a dancing girl	A
With an unromantic style	B
With borrowed colour and curl	A
With fixed mechanical smile	B
With many a hackneyed wile	B
With ungrammatical lips	C
And corns that mar her trips	C
	-
Hung from the flies in air	D
She acts a palpable lie	E
She's as little a fairy there	D
As unpoetical I	E
I hear you asking Why	E
Why in the world I sing	F
This tawdry tinselled thing	F
	-
No airy fairy she	G
As she hangs in arsenic green	H
From a highly impossible tree	G
In a highly impossible scene	H
Herself not over clean	H
For fays don't suffer I'm told	I
From bunions coughs or cold	I
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And stately dames that bring	F
Their daughters there to see	G
Pronounce the dancing thing	F
No better than she should be	G
With her skirt at her shameful knee	G
And her painted tainted phiz	G
Ah matron which of us is	G
	-
And in sooth it oft occurs	G
That while these matrons sigh	E
Their dresses are lower than hers	G
And sometimes half as high	E
And their hair is hair they buy	E
And they use their glasses too	J
In a way she'd blush to do	J
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But change her gold and green	H
For a coarse merino gown	K
And see her upon the scene	H
Of her home when coaxing down	K
Her drunken father's frown	K
In his squalid cheerless den	L
She's a fairy truly then	L

William Schwenck Gilbert

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