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Waring Cuney, "On With the Dirge" (1929)

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Play, O jazz band!
The dance-girl is dead.
(If any one asks for her
Tell him softly
That she has gone) . . .
O play, jazz band!
Play a gay dirge,
For a dead dance-girl.


Published in Saturday Evening Quill, 1929

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