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She might have been some princess fair, / From Nile's banks where lotus blooms; / Or one of Pharaoh's daughters there / Asleep amid long molded tombs.
Or fairy princess sweet and proud, / Or gipsy queen with regal smiles; / Helen of Troy, or Guinevere, / Or Vivien with her witching smile.
Or Zozo's Queen, or Lily Clay, / Or Mrs. Langtry; or a maid / Of fashion, who, in costume scant, / Her charms is wont to have arrayed.
But none of these she is -- not e'en, / Andromeda chained on the rocks. / I found her lovely, lone, and lorn / A chromo on a cracker box.