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How can I work when you play the piano, / Feminine person above? / How can I think, with your ceaseless soprano / Singing: "Ah, Love -- "?
How can I dream of a subject aesthetic, / Far from the purlieus of prose? / How, with the call of the peripatetic / "High! High cash clo'es! "?
How can I write when the children are crying? / How can I poetize -- how? / How can I help imper_fect_ versifying? / (There is some now.)
How can I bathe in the thought -- waves of / beauty? / How, with my nerves on the slant, / Can I perform my poetical duty? / Frankly, I can't.