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 I said, when I first put it on, "It is plain to the veriest dunce
 * That every beauty
 * Will feel it her duty

To yield to its glamour at once. They will see that I'm freely gold-laced In a uniform handsome and chaste"—
 * But the peripatetics
 * Of long-haired æsthetics,

Are very much more to their taste—
 * Which I never counted upon
 * When I first put this uniform on!