WHEN I WORE RED SHOES.
"When I wore red shoes!" Ah me!
Simple as the words may be,
Yet these simple words can bring
The peacock feather of Time's wing,
And flutter it before my eyes
In all its vivid pristine dyes.
What were Cinderella's slippers
To my pair of fairy trippers?
No heart gives such ecstatic thumps
In spur-deck'd boots or perfum'd pumps,
As mine did when I strutted out
To show my fine, red shoes about.
Simple as the words may be,
Yet these simple words can bring
The peacock feather of Time's wing,
And flutter it before my eyes
In all its vivid pristine dyes.
What were Cinderella's slippers
To my pair of fairy trippers?
No heart gives such ecstatic thumps
In spur-deck'd boots or perfum'd pumps,
As mine did when I strutted out
To show my fine, red shoes about.
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