The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
page 69 of 353 (19%)
page 69 of 353 (19%)
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I know some bits by heart to quote:
But then She reads him. I say - and is it strictly true? - How I admire her cockatoo; Well! in a way of course I do: But then She feeds him. And I become, at her command, The sternest Tory in the land; The Grand Old Man is far from grand; But then She states it. Nay! worse than that, I am so tame, I once admitted - to my shame - That football was a brutal game: Because She hates it. My taste in Art she hailed with groans, And I, once charmed with bolder tones, Now love the yellows of Burne-Jones: But then She likes them. My tuneful soul no longer hoards Stray jewels from the Empire boards; I revel now in Dvorak's chords: But then She strikes them. Our age distinctly cramps a knight; Yet, though debarred from tilt and fight, I can admit that black is white, If She asserts it. Heroes of old were luckier men |
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