“Away
with vanity of man.
Now comes to visit here
The
Maiden Aunt, the Puritan,
The Spinster of the year.”—Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978),
“November,” in The Four Seasons: Poems, edited by J.D. McClatchy (Everyman’s Library, 2008)
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