Write a poem, dunderhead,
That we may have new dresses
(Is it not disgraceful how
The old man takes caresses?)
Take them to the publisher
And get a goodly portion,
Or we give our kisses where
They need no sure extortion.
Trotting like the docile lamb
His mistresses had made him
He dreams upon that older pain,
The girlwife who betrayed him.
(Norman MacLeod)
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