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This preHarmonium poem invokes the wealth and romance of a bygone era, vanished as in a card game. It seems to imitate Villons Ballade des dames du temps jadis in several ways. First it asks the whereabouts of thirteen things and people, mirroring Villons thirteen ladies of yesteryear. Second, each refrain begins with the conjunction but mais in Villon, asking the whereabouts of something both ephemeral and symbolic of women.

 


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