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 'Tis a dark-purple sort of a moonlighted kind of a midnight, I know; You remember those verses I wrote on Irene, from Edgar A. Poe? It was Lady Aholibah Levison, daughter of old Lord St. Giles, Who inspired those delectable strains, and rewarded her bard with her smiles. I recited her charms, in conjunction with those of a girl at the café, In a poem I published in collaboration with Templeton (Taffy). There are prudes in a world full of envy—and some of them thought it too strong To compare an earl's daughter by name with a girl at a French restaurant.