Rhymes a la Mode by Andrew Lang
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page 54 of 80 (67%)
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Are famed tattooing blacks.)
But European commerce had Debased the savage kind, And they this most unhappy lad Before (and eke behind) Designed In colours to their mind! Such awful colours as are blent On terrible placards Where flames the fierce advertisement Yea, or on Christmas cards (Not Ward's, But common Christmas cards!) Thus never more to Chelsea might The luckless boy return, He knew himself too dreadful, quite, A thing his friends would spurn, And turn To praise some Grecian urn! But still he dwells in Borneo, A land that culture lacks, And there they all admire him so, They bring him heads in sacks, Dyacks Are NOT aesthetic blacks! |
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