{"id":147,"date":"2021-04-01T10:56:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/flintandfeather\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=147"},"modified":"2022-02-14T13:07:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T18:07:28","slug":"lady-lorgnette","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/chapter\/lady-lorgnette\/","title":{"raw":"Lady Lorgnette","rendered":"Lady Lorgnette"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>I<\/h2>\r\nLady Lorgnette, of the lifted lash,\r\nThe curling lip and the dainty nose,\r\nThe shell-like ear where the jewels flash,\r\nThe arching brow and the languid pose,\r\nThe rare old lace and the subtle scents,\r\nThe slender foot and the fingers frail,\u2014\r\nI may act till the world grows wild and tense,\r\nBut never a flush on your features pale.\r\nThe footlights glimmer between us two,\u2014\r\nYou in the box and I on the boards,\u2014\r\nI am only an actor, Madame, to you,\r\nA mimic king \u2018mid his mimic lords,\r\nFor you are the belle of the smartest set,\r\nLady Lorgnette.\r\n<h2>II<\/h2>\r\nLittle Babette, with your eyes of jet,\r\nYour midnight hair and your piquant chin,\r\nYour lips whose odours of violet\r\nDrive men to madness and saints to sin,\u2014\r\nI see you over the footlights\u2019 glare\r\nDown in the pit \u2018mid the common mob,\u2014\r\nYour throat is burning, and brown, and bare,\r\nYou lean, and listen, and pulse, and throb;\r\nThe viols are dreaming between us two,\r\nAnd my gilded crown is no make-believe,\r\nI am more than an actor, dear, to you,\r\nFor you called me your king but yester eve,\r\nAnd your heart is my golden coronet,\r\nLittle Babette.","rendered":"<h2>I<\/h2>\n<p>Lady Lorgnette, of the lifted lash,<br \/>\nThe curling lip and the dainty nose,<br \/>\nThe shell-like ear where the jewels flash,<br \/>\nThe arching brow and the languid pose,<br \/>\nThe rare old lace and the subtle scents,<br \/>\nThe slender foot and the fingers frail,\u2014<br \/>\nI may act till the world grows wild and tense,<br \/>\nBut never a flush on your features pale.<br \/>\nThe footlights glimmer between us two,\u2014<br \/>\nYou in the box and I on the boards,\u2014<br \/>\nI am only an actor, Madame, to you,<br \/>\nA mimic king \u2018mid his mimic lords,<br \/>\nFor you are the belle of the smartest set,<br \/>\nLady Lorgnette.<\/p>\n<h2>II<\/h2>\n<p>Little Babette, with your eyes of jet,<br \/>\nYour midnight hair and your piquant chin,<br \/>\nYour lips whose odours of violet<br \/>\nDrive men to madness and saints to sin,\u2014<br \/>\nI see you over the footlights\u2019 glare<br \/>\nDown in the pit \u2018mid the common mob,\u2014<br \/>\nYour throat is burning, and brown, and bare,<br \/>\nYou lean, and listen, and pulse, and throb;<br \/>\nThe viols are dreaming between us two,<br \/>\nAnd my gilded crown is no make-believe,<br \/>\nI am more than an actor, dear, to you,<br \/>\nFor you called me your king but yester eve,<br \/>\nAnd your heart is my golden coronet,<br \/>\nLittle 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