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The Winged Beetle
The Winged Beetle (1910), PDF p. 121
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A SLIM GILT SOUL
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Quickened, when afterwards your help
He needed, to a currish yelp.
Nowso the wheel of Fortune whirls !
Your kindly love for little girls
And ardour for the fine old faith
Makes all that past a wisp, a wraith.
You patronise our Sunday schools,
Pronounce on Grammars darkest rules,
Rebuke bad taste, irreverence,
Heresy, humbug, and pretence.
Your tepid verses come like boons
To cheer Suburban afternoons ;
While Asquith, were he only wise,
Would bid a Board of Morals rise ;
Sure no one like yourself can be
Past-Master in Virginity.
Stay ! if so well you play the rôles,
Why not enact dramatic scrolls ?
You would be welcome on the stage
To amuse and to instruct the age
A shining light in Opera-Bouffe :
Giton, and Judas, and Tartufe !
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