“They sat and combed their beautiful hair,
Their long, bright tresses, one by one,
As they laughed and talked in the chamber there,
After the revel was done.”

— Nora Perry

After the Ball, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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