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The unsoiled hand the sleek black coat	A
The senile ledger haunted hours	B
The knowledge that my freeman's vote	A
Is humbly cast to please 'the powers '	C
A futile spite against the mass	D
A small weak hate of Labor's side	E
These privileges of Our Class	D
I cherish with a puny pride	E
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The sycophancy of the snob	F
The day long cringe the life long fear	G
That I may lose a steady job	F
That 'job genteel' I hold so dear	G
These be the splendid attributes	H
Of one who yearns to emulate	I
His master and all work soiled brutes	H
Regards with mean reflected hate	I
	-
Not mine the arrogance of wealth	J
No pride in honest labor mine	K
But while I still hold life and health	J
My pet ambition is to shine	K
A small pale star that faintly glows	H
In Fat's impressive firmament	I
The while I earn mere food and clothes	H
And help the boss to cent per cent	I
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Ambition E'en my timid soul	L
Dreams of a day when I shall rule	M
When I may heckle and control	L
The trembling slaves of desk and stool	M
When I shall be of Fat myself	N
Who now but dangles at his skirt	I
A magnate Armed with pow'r and pelf	N
Meet recompense for eating dirt	I
	-
I mark the lowly toiler rage	O
'Resist ' he cries 'Resist Unite '	-
The while I sue for patronage	P
A deferential parasite	I
Then to my aid comes Pride of Class	H
I take my stand beside the Boss	H
I earn his praise Although alas	H
His gain mayhap will be my loss	H
	-
For who would risk a master's ire	Q
That deity who rules my life	N
That god who may in vengeance dire	Q
Snatch happiness from 'child' and wife	N
'Rights ' shout the horny handed 'Rights '	-
The dolts defy the pow'rs that be	R
While I watch through the restless nights	H
And tremble for my salary	R
	-
Oh what rash madness moves these clods	H
E'en my own fellow serfs alas	H
Speak treason 'gainst the money gods	H
And turn black traitors to Our Class	H
Our Class That genteel cultured band	I
Well dressed respectable elite	I
The servile mind the soft white hand	I
Patrician class of Collins street	I
	-
Cohorts of Collins street arise	H
O legions wake in Finders land	I
Let each pale hero rcognise	H
His class and fight with might and mian	K
Fight for the master sturdily	M
What though his profit be our loss	H
And let our watchword ever be	R
Or Class OUR BILLET and OUR BOSS	H
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The sleek black coat the unsoiled hand	I
The proud assertion of the worm	S
Behold the Class Oh noble band	I
Mild desk worn yoemen of 'The Firm '	-
With swagger of the over dressed	I
With meekness of the underpaid	I
They flout the plaint of the oppressed	I
And stare at Liberty afraid	I

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

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