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THERE is a big artist named Val	A
The roughs' and the prize fighters' pal	A
The mind of a groom	B
And the head of a broom	B
Were Nature's endowments to Val	A
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There is a Creator named God	C
Whose creations are sometimes quite odd	C
I maintain and I shall	A
The creation of Val	A
Reflects little credit on God	C
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There is a dull Painter named Wells	D
Who is duller than any one else	E
With the face of a horse	F
He sits by you and snorts	G
Which is very offensive in Wells	D
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There's an infantine Artist named Hughes	H
Him and his the R A 's did refuse	H
At length though among	I
The lot one was hung	I
But it was himself in a noose	J
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There's a babyish party named Burges	K
Who from infancy hardly emerges	L
If you had not been told	M
He's disgracefully old	M
You would offer a bull's eye to Burges	K
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There is a young person named Georgie	N
Who indulges each night in an orgy	N
Soda water and brandy	N
Are always kept handy	N
To efface the effects of that orgy	N
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There is a young Artist named Jones	O
Whose conduct no genius atones	O
His behaviour in life	P
Is a pang to the wife	P
And a plague to the neighbours of Jones	O
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There is a young Painter called Jones	O
A cheer here and hisses and groans	O
The state of his mind	Q
Is a shame to mankind	Q
But a matter of triumph to Jones	O
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There's a Painter of Portraits named Chapman	R
Who in vain would catch woman or trap man	S
To be painted life size	O
More preposterous guys	O
Than they care to be painted by Chapman	R
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There's a combative Artist named Whistler	T
Who is like his own hog hairs a bristler	T
A tube of white lead	U
And a punch on the head	U
Offer varied attractions to Whistler	T
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There's a publishing party named Ellis	O
Who's addicted to poets with bellies	O
He has at least two	V
One in fact one in view	V
And God knows what will happen to Ellis	O
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There's a Portuguese person named Howell	W
Who lays on his lies with a trowel	X
Should he give over lying	Y
'Twill be when he's dying	Y
For living is lying with Howell	W
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There is a mad Artist named Inchbold	U
With whom you must be at a pinch bold	U
Or else you may score	T
The brass plate on your door	T
With the name of J W Inchbold	U
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A Historical Painter named Brown	Z
Was in manners and language a clown	Z
At epochs of victual	W
Both pudden and kittle	W
Were expressions familiar to Brown	Z
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There was a young rascal called Nolly	W
Whose habits though dirty were jolly	W
And when this book comes	O
To be marked with his thumbs	O
You may know that its owner is Nolly	W
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There are dealers in pictures named Agnew	V
Whose soft soap would make an old rag new	V
The Father of Lies	O
With his tail to his eyes	O
Cries Go it Tom Agnew Bill Agnew	V
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There's a solid fat German called Huffer	T
A hypochondriacal buffer	T
To declaim Schopenhauer	T
From the top of a tower	T
Is the highest ambition of Huffer	T
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There's a Scotch correspondent named Scott	U
Thinks a penny for postage a lot	U
Books verses and letters	O
Too good for his betters	O
Cannot screw out an answer from Scott	U
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There's a foolish old Scotchman called Scotus	O
Most justly a Pictor Ignotus	O
For what he best knew	V
He never would do	V
This stubborn old donkey called Scotus	O
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There once was a painter named Scott	U
Who seemed to have hair but had not	U
He seemed too to have sense	O
'Twas an equal pretence	O
On the part of the painter named Scott	U
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There's the Irishman Arthur O'Shaughnessy	O
On the chessboard of poets a pawn is he	O
Though a bishop or king	Y
Would be rather the thing	Y
To the fancy of Arthur O'Shaughnessy	O
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There is a young Artist named Knewstub	A2
Who for personal cleaning will use tub	A2
But in matters of paint	U
Not the holiest Saint	U
Was ever so dirty as Knewstub	A2
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There is a poor sneak called Rossetti	O
As a painter with many kicks met he	O
With more as a man	S
But sometimes he ran	S
And that saved the rear of Rossetti	O
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As a critic the Poet Buchanan	R
Thinks Pseudo much safer than Anon	R
Into Maitland he shrunk	B2
But the smell of the skunk	B2
Guides the shuddering nose to Buchanan	R

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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