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  "venue": "The Harvard Advocate, vol. 88, no. 7, p. 103 (12 January 1910)",
  "note": "Cited from John Hayward's Poems Written in Early Youth (1967) and Donald Gallup's T. S. Eliot: A Bibliography (revised edition, 1969). Printed as “Humouresque (after J. Laforgue)”. A draft is in Inventions of the March Hare (ed. Christopher Ricks, 1996), pp. 325–326.",
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   {
    "text": "One of my marionettes is dead",
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   {
    "text": "Though not yet tired of the game⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "But weak in body as in head,",
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   {
    "text": "(A jumping-jack has such a frame).",
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  ],
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    "text": "But this deceasèd marionette",
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   {
    "text": "I rather liked: a common face,",
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   {
    "text": "(The kind of face that we forget)",
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    "text": "Pinched in a comic, dull grimace;",
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    "text": "Half bullying, half imploring air,",
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   {
    "text": "Mouth twisted to the latest tune;",
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    "text": "His who-the-devil-are-you stare;",
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    "text": "Translated, maybe, to the moon.",
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    "text": "With Limbo’s other useless things",
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   {
    "text": "Haranguing spectres, set him there;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“The snappiest fashion since last spring’s,",
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   {
    "text": "“The newest style, on Earth, I swear.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Why don’t you people get some class?",
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   {
    "text": "(Feebly contemptuous of nose),",
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   {
    "text": "“Your damned thin moonlight, worse than gas⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Now in New York”⁠—and so it goes.",
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    "text": "Logic a marionette’s, all wrong",
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   {
    "text": "Of premises; yet in some star",
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   {
    "text": "A hero!⁠—Where would he belong?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But, even at that, what mask bizarre!",
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