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 Fifth Avenue, 1915

(American poet, born 1882. The following poem is a rondel, an interesting case of the use of an artificial old French verse-form in a vital way)

The motor cars go up and down, The painted ladies sit and smile. Along the sidewalks, mile on mile, Parade the dandies of the town.

The latest hat, the latest gown, The tedium of their souls beguile. The motor cars go up and down, The painted ladies sit and smile.

In wild and icy waters drown A thousand for a rock-bound isle. Ten thousand in a black defile Perish for justice or a crown. The motor cars go up and down

Hotel Life

(From "The House of Mirth")

(Contemporary American novelist)

The environment in which Lily found herself was as strange to her as its inhabitants. She was unacquainted with the world of the fashionable New York hotel—a world over-heated, over-upholstered, and over-*