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God made the wicked Grocer	A
For a mystery and a sign	B
That men might shun the awful shops	C
And go to inns to dine	B
Where the bacon's on the rafter	A
And the wine is in the wood	D
And God that made good laughter	A
Has seen that they are good	D
	-
The evil hearted Grocer	A
Would call his mother 'Ma'am '	-
And bow at her and bob at her	A
Her aged soul to damn	E
And rub his horrid hands and ask	F
What article was next	G
Though mortis in articulo	H
Should be her proper text	G
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His props are not his children	I
But pert lads underpaid	J
Who call out 'Cash ' and bang about	K
To work his wicked trade	J
He keeps a lady in a cage	L
Most cruelly all day	M
And makes her count and calls her 'Miss'	C
Until she fades away	M
	-
The righteous minds of innkeepers	C
Induce them now and then	N
To crack a bottle with a friend	O
Or treat unmoneyed men	N
But who hath seen the Grocer	A
Treat housemaids to his teas	C
Or crack a bottle of fish sauce	C
Or stand a man a cheese	C
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He sells us sands of Araby	P
As sugar for cash down	Q
He sweeps his shop and sells the dust	R
The purest salt in town	Q
He crams with cans of poisoned meat	S
The subjects of the King	T
And when they die my thousands	C
Why he laughs like anything	T
	-
The wicked Grocer groces	C
In spirits and in wine	B
Not frankly and in fellowship	U
As men in inns do dine	B
But packed with soap and sardines	C
And carried off by grooms	C
For to be snatched by Duchesses	C
And drunk in dressing rooms	C
	-
The hell instructed Grocer	A
Has a temple made of tin	V
And the ruin of good innkeepers	C
Is loudly urged therein	V
But now the sands are running out	K
From sugar of a sort	W
The Grocer trembles for his time	X
Just like his weight is short	W

G. K. Chesterton

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