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to be tricked out that night
with gauds
from imaginations which have no
peasant traditions to give them
character
but flutter and flaunt
sheer rags — succumbing without
emotion
save numbed terror
under some hedge of choke-cherry
or viburnum —
which they cannot express —
Unless it be that marriage
perhaps
with a dash of Indian blood
will throw up a girl so desolate
so hemmed round
with disease or murder
that she'll be rescued by an
agent —
reared by the state and
