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Poems of sentiment

containing An Erring Woman's Love, Love's Supremacy, and Worth While, Etc., Etc

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LIFE'S OPERA.

Like an opera-house is the world I ween,
Where the passionate lover of music is seen
In the balcony near the roof:
While the very best seat in the first stage-box
Is filled by the person who laughs and talks
Through the harmony's warp and woof.