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The vainest girls in forty states Were Gwendolyn and Gladys Gates; They warbled, slightly off the air,
 * Romantic German songs,

And each of them upon her hair
 * Employed the curling tongs,

And each with ardor most intense
 * Her buxom figure laced,



Until her wilful want of sense
 * Procured a woeful waist:

For bound to marry titled mates Were Gwendolyn and Gladys Gates.