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A window filled with naught but shoes of every shape and every size; / of black and brown and flaunting hues -- they claimed my fascinated / eyes. I simply had to stand and stare (would you believe me, in the / rain! ), I had no wish to buy a pair, indeed, I have a foolish brain. / But this is why I could not go: I could not tear myself away, I felt / a great desire to know where all these shoes would wend one day. And / while the raindrops, laughing, fell, I stood and mused a little / while. This pair, oh, anyone could tell, would walk for many a / business mile, and those would mince along the street as proud as / proud as they could be; and these, they were for dancing feet. / Perhaps (hoped I) they'll dance with me! Just then a cosy pair I / spied. Ah, they would meet my heart's desire, for when it rained and / stormed outside, they'd stay, with books, beside the fire.