O chansons foregoing
You were a seven days' wonder.
When you came out in the magazines
You created considerable stir in Chicago,
And now you are stale and worn out,
You're a very depleted fashion,
A hoop-skirt, a calash,
An homely, transient antiquity.
Only emotion remains.
Your emotions?
Are those of a maitre-de-cafe.

Text Authorship:

• by Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), "Epilogue", appears in Lustra, first published 1916 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by Gary Bachlund , "Art", 2010. [medium voice or high voice and piano].
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