Paris Envy: Envy Oblect #1

Les chaussures violettes aux rubans.

Sigh.

On fabulous footwear and other objects of envy, the Dickinsonian oracle speaks:

'Tis Customary as we part
A Trinket - to confer -
It helps to stimulate the faith
When Lovers be afar -

'Tis various - as the various taste -
Clematis - journeying far -
Presents me with a single Curl -
Of her Electric Hair -
(E. Dickinson, 628)