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TIS friendship's test to guard the name	A
Of him you love from all attack	B
As you are to his face the same	A
To be when you're behind his back	B
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Now good old loyal Jimmy Green	C
A traitor to you have I been	D
As false as Arnold to my trust	E
Your name I've trampled in the dust	E
Last night I lingered out till two	F
And said that I had been with you	F
And then straightway my wife began	G
To prove to me that you're no man	G
'What out again ' said she 'with Green	C
No decent man with him is seen	C
No man who valued much his home	H
With him would ever care to roam	H
But for the children long ago	I
His own wife would have quit I know	I
His only friends are loafers who	F
Don't care what vicious things they do	F
He'd steal he'd lie he's insincere '	-
And all I said was 'Yes my dear '	-
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'Who else was with you tell me pray	J
Come answer me and right away '	-
And then I muttered 'Freddie Brown '	-
And promptly turned poor Freddie down	K
'What Brown ' she screamed 'that low down thing	L
Who all his life has had his fling	L
That selfish brute who doesn't care	M
What shabby clothes his wife must wear	M
So long as he can spend his pay	J
And turn the night hours into day	J
I'd never go about the town	K
And tell that I had been with Brown	K
I've always said his hang dog look	N
Betrayed the fact that he's a crook	N
And you with him Of all men you	F
I wonder now what next you'll do	F
You know Fred Brown's a man to fear '	-
And all I said was 'Yes my dear '	-
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'Who else was with you all this night '	-
She asked and I said 'Billy White '	-
And Billy White was next to fall	O
Before her rhetoric in the hall	O
I don't remember now just what	P
She said of Bill but 'twas a lot	Q
Perhaps I should have argued back	B
And spared my friends from her attack	B
Perhaps I should have pointed out	R
That they are men beyond all doubt	R
Men who have won their share of fame	A
That each one bears an honored name	A
Perhaps I should have argued there	M
And proved her charges most unfair	M
But it was two as I have said	S
And I was tired and wished for bed	S
So by the short route chose to steer	T
And all I said was 'Yes my dear '	-

Edgar Albert Guest

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