If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line As a man of culture rare, You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms And plant them everywhere. You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases Of your complicated state of mind, The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter Of a transendental kind.
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When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an Attorneys firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queens Navee .... Stick close to your desks and never go to sea, And you all may be Rulers of the Queens Navee.William Schwenck Gilbert
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time To let the punishment fit the crime The punishment fit the crime.
William Schwenck Gilbert
On a tree by a river a little tom-tit Sang Willow, titwillow, titwillow And I said to him, Dicky-bird, why do you sit Singing Willow, titwillow, titwillow Is it a weakness of intellect, birdie I cried, Or a rather tough worm in your little inside With a shake of his poor little head he replied, Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow.
William Schwenck Gilbert
When every one is somebody, Then no one's anybody!
William Schwenck Gilbert
Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses.
William Schwenck Gilbert
Oh, dont the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isnt your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at.
William Schwenck Gilbert
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