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(AMERICA'S GREAT EMOTIONAL ACTRESS)
The Radiant Rulers of Mystic Regions / Where souls of artists are fitted for birth / Gathered together their lovely legions / And fashioned a woman to shine on earth. / They bathed her in splendour, / They made her tender, / They gave her a nature both sweet and wild; / They gave her emotions like storm-stirred oceans, / And they gave her the heart of a little child.