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 "title": "Magasins du Louvre",
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 "poet": "Mina Loy",
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 "book": "Poetry",
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 "container": "Three Moments in Paris",
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  "year": 1915,
  "venue": "Rogue, vol. I no. 4 (1 May 1915), pp. 10-11, as part III of “Three Moments in Paris”",
  "note": "Read on the page image of the Beinecke copy: the issue’s imprint line reads “Volume I, No. 4, May 1, 1915”, its contents leaf lists “THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS … Mina Loy … Page 10”, and the poem stands there as part of a group headed “Three Moments in Paris / By MINA LOY”. The text held here follows the 1923 Lunar Baedecker printing, not this one.",
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   "https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/17390662",
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   "https://archive.org/details/cu31924022030351",
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   "https://archive.org/details/sim_dial_1921-06_70/page/672",
   "https://archive.org/details/sim_dial_1921-08_71/page/n15",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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    "text": "All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass",
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    "text": "Long lines of boxes",
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    "text": "Of dolls",
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    "text": "Walls and pillars",
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    "text": "And composite babies with arms extended",
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    "text": "Hang from the ceiling",
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    "text": "Beckoning",
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    "text": "Smiling",
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    "text": "In a profound silence",
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    "text": "Which the shop walker left trailing behind him",
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    "text": "When he ambled to the further end of the gallery",
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    "text": "To annoy the shop-girl",
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    "text": "All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass",
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    "text": "They alone have the effrontery to",
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    "text": "Stare through the human soul",
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    "text": "Seeing nothing",
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    "text": "Between parted fringes",
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    "text": "One cocotte wears a bowler hat and a sham camellia",
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    "text": "And one an iridescent boa",
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   {
    "text": "For there are two of them",
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    "text": "Passing",
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    "text": "And the solicitous mouth of one is straight",
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    "text": "The other curved to a static smile",
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    "text": "They see the dolls",
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    "text": "And for a moment their eyes relax",
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    "text": "To a flicker of elements unconditionally primeval",
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    "text": "And now averted",
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    "text": "Seek each other’s surreptitiously",
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    "text": "To know if the other has seen",
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    "text": "While mine are inextricably entangled with the pattern of the carpet",
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    "text": "As eyes are apt to be",
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    "text": "In their shame",
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    "text": "Having surprised a gesture that is ultimately intimate",
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    "text": "All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass.",
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