IN THE RUE DE LA NUIT

her blackness very black and dazzling was like a magnet that drew his sight 

her smooth sleekness soon became his exotic delight 

in the rue de la nuit in paris that night

she might not forget this stranger,  as she has the others,  who is loving her with such tender passion

who had spent his last francs in the ancient transaction

he would never forget her

her name madeleine

from the island of guadalupe

her blackness black as the blackest black

her smooth sleekness a hand's velvet track

in the rue de la nuit in paris that night

where he first tasted the beauty of black

and never to the paler side did ever go "back"

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