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Smith is a very stupid man	A
He lives next door to me	B
He has no settled scheme or plan	A
Of domesticity	B
He does not own a gramophone	A
Nor rush for morning trains	C
His garden paths are overgrown	A
He seldom entertains	C
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In all our staid suburban street	D
He strikes the one false note	E
He goes about in slippered feet	D
And seldom wears a coat	E
He shows no taste in furniture	F
He never goes to church	G
His ways our district prim and pure	H
seem somehow to besmirch	G
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I don't know how he earns his bread	I
'Tis said he paints or writes	J
And frequently I've heard it said	I
He works quite late at nights	J
His servant told the girl we've got	K
He makes a lot of pelf	L
It seems a pity he will not	K
Strive to improve himself	L
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She's quite a pretty girl his wife	L
Our women folk declare	M
It is a shame she spoiled her life	L
With such a perfect bear	M
And yet she seems quite satisfied	N
With this peculiar man	A
And says with rather foolish pride	N
He is Bohemian	A
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He has the crudest views about	O
Respectability	B
I've often heard him laugh and shout	O
On Sundays after tea	B
While our select suburban clan	A
Pass him the stony stare	M
Smith is a very stupid man	A
He doesn't seem to care	M
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He will not join our tennis club	P
Nor come to may'ral balls	Q
Nor meet the neighbours in a rub	P
At bridge nor pay them calls	Q
He just delights to scoff and sneer	R
And feigns to be amused	S
At everything we hold most dear	R
What wonder he's abused	S
	-
Although he's ostracised a deal	T
He never makes a fuss	U
I sometimes think he seems to feel	T
He ostracises us	U
But that of course is quite absurd	V
And risking the disgrace	W
I sometimes say a kindly word	V
When I pass by his place	W
	-
But still although one likes to keep	X
One's self a bit select	Y
And not be so to speak too cheap	X
I'm broad in that respect	Y
So oft on sultry summer eves	Z
I waive all diffidence	Z
And chat across the wilted leaves	Z
That garb our garden fence	Z
	-
But oh his talk is so absurd	V
His notions are so crude	A2
Such drivel I have seldom heard	V
His mode of speech is rude	A2
He mentions 'stomach' in a bark	B2
You'd hear across the street	D
He lacks those 'little ways' that mark	B2
A gentleman discreet	D
	-
And when I speak of great affairs	Z
His mind becomes a blank	C2
He shows no interest in the cares	Z
Of folk of noble rank	C2
And should we chat of politics	Z
He sneers at parliament	D2
And says the modern party tricks	Z
Were by the Devil sent	E2
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It seems he has some foolish scheme	F2
To right all social wrong	G2
Some silly plan some idle dream	F2
To raise the fallen throng	G2
It tell him if we change our plan	A
All enterprise must end	H2
Smith is a very stupid man	A
He does not comprehend	H2
	-
Good books as I have often said	I
He mentions with disdain	A
Marie Corelli he's not read	I
Garvice nor yet Hall Caine	A
He talks of writers most obscure	H
Like Virgil Carlyle Kant	I2
Whose works no scholar could endure	H
His reading must be scant	I2
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In art he is a perfect dunce	Z
That's plainly evident	D2
I recollect I showed him once	Z
A Christmas supplement	D2
He asked me if it was a joke	J2
Although the thing was grand	K2
I knew the moment that he spoke	J2
Smith didn't understand	K2
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He lacks all soul for music too	L2
He hates the gramophone	A
And when we play some dance tune new	A
I've often heard him groan	A
He says our music gives him sad	M2
Sad thoughts of slaughtered things	Z
I think Smith is a little mad	M2
Nice thoughts to me it brings	Z
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Now I have quite a kindly heart	N2
Good works I do not stint	O2
Last week I spoke to Smith apart	N2
And dropped a gentle hint	O2
He will be snubbed I told him flat	P2
By neighbours round about	O
Unless he wears a better hat	P2
On Sundays when he's out	O
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Last Sunday morn he passed my place	Z
About the hour of four	Q2
A smile serence was on his face	Z
And on his head he wore	Q2
The most dilapidated hat	P2
That I have ever seen	A
'This ought to keep 'em off the mat '	-
He said What did he mean	A
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I wish that Smith was not so dense	Z
He seems to have no vice	Z
He's educated in a sense	Z
And could become quite nice	Z
Still there's a certain 'genteel' brand	K2
That marks the cultured man	A
Smith doesn't seem to understand	K2
He's such a stupid man	A

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

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