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By Dorothy Parker
By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying— Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.
- Source
- Enough Rope, 1926 · p. 51 (poem "Unfortunate Coincidence")
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- Internet Archive (scan of Enough Rope, New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926; copyright 1926)
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The whole of the poem "Unfortunate Coincidence," from Enough Rope (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926). The book says its verses were first printed in Life, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and The New York World. Published in the US in 1926, so in the public domain.