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 the blameless and 
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 Aphrodite* 
 
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 to explain 
 
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 Cleopatra, and Cain* 
 
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 IS for Handel, 
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 While Irving and 
 Ingersoll 
 hasten away* 
 
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 Manon to each try 
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 shrouded 
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 and Nordau, to whom 
 
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 On Omar, that awfully 
 dissolute Persian, 
 
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 Paine, Paderewski, 
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 IS for Swinburne^ 
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 the beautiful, visits the Zoo, 
 
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 IS for Talleyrand 
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 Miss Truth, 
 
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 in a glass of vermouth, 
 
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 Twain as the friend 
 of his youths 
 
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 sang and played 
 lots for Washing- 
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 pained Wesley and Watts, 
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 who's having 
 her say. 
 
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 IS for Young, 
 the great 
 Mormon saint, 
 
 Who thinks little Yum 
 Yum and Yvette so 
 quaint, 
 
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 held in restraint* 
 
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 IS for Zola, 
 presenting 
 La Terre 
 
 To Zenobia the brave 
 and Zuleika the fair. 
 
 Whose blushes they 
 
 artfully conceal with 
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 This Alphabet of Celebrities 
 written & pictured by Oliver 
 Herford with a border & initial 
 letters by Bertram Grosvenor 
 Goodhue and end papers & 
 cover design by E. B. Bird is 
 printed for Small Maynard & 
 Company at the Heintzemann 
 Press in Boston U. S. A. in 
 the month of November 
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