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'Why keep a cow when I can buy,'
Said he, 'the milk I need,'
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Folk ask if I'm alive,
Most think I'm not;
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Aye, Montecelli, that's the name.
You may have heard of him perhaps.
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I'm just a mediocre man
Of no high-brow pretence;
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After working hard all day
In the office,
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A beggar in the street I saw,
Who held a hand like withered claw,
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I watched one day a parrot grey - 'twas in a barber shop.
"Cuckold!" he cried, until I sighed: "You feathered devil, stop!"
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Some deem I'm gentle, some I'm kind:
It may be so,--I cannot say.
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As nothingness draws near
How I can see
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Where once with lads I scoffed my beer
The landlord's lass I've wed.
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I cannot flap a flag
Or beat a drum;
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When Aunt Jane died we hunted round,
And money everywhere we found.
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I bought my little grandchild Ann
A bright balloon,
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I much admire, I must admit,
The man who robs a Bank;
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To buy for school a copy-book
I asked my Dad for two-pence;
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Franklin fathered bastards fourteen,
(So I read in the New Yorker);
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In Wall Street once a potent power,
And now a multi-millionaire
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She phoned them when the Round was Eight:
'How is my Joe?' they heard her say.
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Elisabeth imagines I've
A yellow streak
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I draw sweet air
Deeply and long,
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A mattock high he swung;
I watched him at his toil;
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I knew three sisters,--all were sweet;
Wishful to wed was I,
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His frown brought terror to his foes,
But now in twilight of his days
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Three Holies sat in sacred place
And quaffed celestial wine,
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He wrote a letter in his mind
To answer one a maid had sent;
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I love to watch my seven cows
In meads of buttercups abrowse,
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Sweet maiden, why disguise
The beauty of your eyes
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In youth I longed to paint
The loveliness I saw;
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'A shilling's worth of quinine, please,'
The customer demanded.
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And is it not a gesture grand
To drink oneself to death?
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A little mousey man he was
With board, and chalk in hand;
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Oh darling Eric, why did you
For my fond affection sue,
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I wish I had a simple style
In writing verse,
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He wrote a play; by day and night
He strove with passion and delight;
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Familiarity some claim
Can breed contempt,
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In youth when oft my muse was dumb,
My fancy nighly dead,
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Being a shorty, as you see,
A bare five footer,
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They thought I'd be a champion;
They boasted loud of me.
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Because I was a wonton wild
And welcomed many a lover,
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'Come, see,' said he, 'my four-foot shelf,
A forty volume row;
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So often in the mid of night
I wake me in my bed
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Being a gaoler I'm supposed
To be a hard-boiled guy;
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Addict of Punch and Judy shows
I was when I was small;
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They're hanging Bill at eight o' clock,
And millions will applaud.
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Mary and I were twenty-two
When we were wed;
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His portrait hung upon the wall.
Oh how at us he used to stare.
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A gaunt and hoary slab of stone
I found in desert place,
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My daughter Jane makes dresses
For beautiful Princesses;
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I thought I would go daft when Joey died.
He was my first, and wise beyond his years.
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A grey gull hovered overhead,
Then wisely flew away.
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If the good King only knew,
Lindy Lou,
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Wars have been and wars will be
Till the human race is run;
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I never saw a face so bright
With brilliant blood and joy,
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'A ticket for the lottery
I've purchased every week,' said she
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I often wonder how
Life clicks because
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It's mighty quiet in the house
Since Mary Ellen quit me cold;
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Miss Don't-do-this and Don't-do-that
Has such a sunny smile
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He was my one and only love;
My world was mirror for his face.
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A barefoot boy I went to school
To save a cobbler's fee,
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In idle dream with pipe in hand
I looked across the Square,
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'Nay; I don't need a hearing aid'
I told Mama-in-law;
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Each day when it's anighing three
Old Dick looks at the clock,
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I hate my neighbour Widow Green;
I'd like to claw her face;
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A thousand books my library
Contains;
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I think the things I own and love
Acquire a sense of me,
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I must not let my boy Dick down,
Knight of the air.
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I haven't worn my evening dress
For nearly twenty years;
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To me at night the stars are vocal.
They say: 'Your planet's oh so local!
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In kindergarten classed
Dislike they knew;
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Men have navels more or less;
Some are neat, some not
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I told a truth, a tragic truth
That tore the sullen sky;
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With belly like a poisoned pup
Said I: 'I must give bacon up:
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Of garden truck he made his fare,
As his bright eyes bore witness;
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For five and twenty years I've run
A famous train;
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Full fifty merry maids I heard
One summer morn a-singing;
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My destiny it is tonight
To sit with pensive brow
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Because I love the soothing weed
And am of sober type,
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I own a gorgeous Cadillac,
A chauffeur garbed in blue;
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They asked the Bard of Ayr to dine;
The banquet hall was fit and fine,
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Mumsie and Dad are raven dark
And I am lily blonde.
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'A man should write to please himself,'
He proudly said.
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It hurts my pride that I should be
The issue of a night of lust;
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Oh how it would enable me
To titillate my vanity
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Rosemary has of dolls a dozen,
Yet she disdains them all;
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Do you recall that happy bike
With bundles on our backs?
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With peace and rest
And wisdom sage,
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I gave an eye to save from night
A babe born blind;
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When you come home I'll not be round
To welcome you.
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He sleeps beside me in the bed;
Upon my breast I hold his head;
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Oh how I love the laughing sea,
Sun lances splintering;
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My Master is a man of might
With manners like a hog;
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Selecting in the dining-room
The silver of his choice,
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If on water and sweet bread
Seven years I'll add to life,
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My mother loved her horses and
Her hounds of pedigree;
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When young I was a Socialist
Despite my tender years;
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My precious grand-child, aged two,
Is eager to unlace one shoe,
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Stupidity, woe's anodyne,
Be kind and comfort me in mine;
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I wonder if successful men
Are always happy?
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When I was young and Scottish I
Allergic was to spending;
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My daughter Susie, aged two,
Apes me in every way,
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My Muse is simple,--yet it's nice
To think you don't need to think twice
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Enthusiastic was the crowd
That hailed him with delight;
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Softly every night they come
To the picture show,
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Although my blood I've shed
In war's red wrath,
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All day with brow of anxious thought
The dictionary through,
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