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 * And their hair is hair they buy,

And they use their glasses, too, In a way she'd blush to do.)

But change her gold and green
 * For a coarse merino gown,

And see her upon the scene
 * Of her home, when coaxing down
 * Her drunken father's frown,

In his squalid cheerless den: She's a fairy truly, then!