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When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin,
She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin.
An abstemious man would reel at her look,
As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.

Source: Slightly Foxed, or The Widower of Bayswater, verse 7, in Collected Poems, London Ballads and Poems, 1960.
-- William Plomer, (Dec 10 1903-1973), S. African-British man of letters; His writings covered many genres: poetry, novels, short stories, anti-racist essays, memoirs, and even opera librettos.

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