Other ladies wear a hat
Fit to write a sonnet on:
Kitty has -- the naughty cat --
Neither hat nor bonnet on!
Fifty silks has Madame Tate --
She who loves to spank it on:
All her clothes are worn by Kate
When she has her blanket on.
Let her rip! the Phrygian boy
Bolted with a brighter one;
And the girl who ruined Troy
Was a rather whiter one.
Katie's mouth is hardly Greek --
Hardly like a rose it is:
Katie's nose is not antique --
Not the classic nose it is.
Dryad in the grand old day,
Though she walked the woods about,
Didn't smoke a penny clay --
Didn't "hump" her goods about.
Daphne by the fairy lake,
Far away from din and all,
Never ate a yard of snake,
Head and tail and skin and all.
A Hyde Park Larrikin
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* To the servants of God that are to be found in every denomination,
these verses, of course, do not apply. -- H.K.
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You may have heard of Proclus, sir,
If you have been a reader;
And you may know a bit of her
Who helped the Lycian leader.
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