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She is hotfoot after Cultyure;

        She pursues it with a club.

She breathes a heavy atmosphere

        Of literary flub.

No literary shrine so far

        But she is there to kneel;

                          And—

Her favorite bunch of reading

        Is O. Meredith's "Lucile."

Of course she's up on pictures—

        Passes for a connoisseur;

On free days at the Institute

        You'll always notice her.

She qualifies approval

        Of a Titian or Corot,

                        But—

She throws a fit of rapture

        When she comes to Bouguereau.

And when you talk of music,

        Why, she's Music's devotee.

She will tell you that Beethoven

        Always makes her wish to pray,

And "dear old Bach!" his very name,

        She says, her ear enchants;

                        But—

Her favorite piece is Weber's

        "Invitation to the Dance."