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1850–1919

LIFE'S OPERA

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Like an opera-house is the world, I ween, Where the passionate lover of music is seen In the balcony near the roof: While the very best seat in the first stage-box

Is filled by the person who laughs and talks Through the harmony's warp and woof.

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