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IN THE BACKS	A
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As I was strolling lonely in the Backs	A
I met a woman whom I did not like	B
I did not like the way the woman walked	C
Loose hipped big boned disjointed angular	D
If her anatomy comprised a waist	E
I did not notice it she had a face	F
With eyes and lips adjusted thereunto	E
But round her mouth no pleasing shadows stirred	E
Nor did her eyes invite a second glance	G
Her dress was absolutely colourless	G
Devoid of taste or shape or character	D
Her boots were rather old and rather large	H
And rather shabby not precisely matched	E
Her hair was very far from beautiful	I
And not abundant she had such a hat	E
As neither merits nor expects remark	J
She was not clever I am very sure	K
Nor witty nor amusing well informed	E
She may have been and kind perhaps of heart	E
But gossip was writ plain upon her face	G
And so she stalked her dull unthinking way	L
Or if she thought of anything it was	G
That such a one had got a second class	G
Or Mrs So and So a second child	E
I did not want to see that girl again	M
I did not like her and I should not mind	E
If she were done away with killed or ploughed	E
She did not seem to serve a useful end	E
And certainly she was not beautiful	I
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ON THE KING'S PARADE	E
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As I was waiting for the tardy tram	N
I met what purported to be a man	O
What seemed to pass for its material frame	P
The semblance of a suit of clothes had on	Q
Fit emblem of the grand sartorial art	E
And worthy of a more sublime abode	E
Its coat and waistcoat were of weird design	R
Adapted to the fashion's latest whim	S
I think it wore an Athen um tie	E
White flannels draped its too ethereal limbs	G
And in its vacant eye there glared a glass	G
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In vain for this poor derelict of flesh	T
Void of the spirit it was built to house	G
Have classic poets tuned their deathless lyre	U
Astute historians fingered mouldering sheets	G
And reared a palace of sententious truth	V
In vain has y been added unto x	G
In vain the mighty decimal unrolled	E
Which strives indefinitely to be g	W
In vain the palpitating frog has groaned	E
Beneath the licensed knife in vain for this	G
The surreptitious corpse been disinterred	E
And forced amid the disinfectant fumes	G
To yield its secrets to philosophy	W
In vain the stress and storm of politics	G
Beat round this empty head in vain the priest	E
Pronounces loud anathemas the fool	X
In vain remarks upon the fact that God	E
Is missing in the world of his belief	Y
Vain are the problems whether space or time	Z
Or force or matter can be said to be	W
Vain are the mysteries of Melchisedec	W
And vain Methuselah's unusual years	G
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It had a landlady I make no doubt	E
A friend or two as vacant as itself	A2
A kitchen bill a thousand cigarettes	G
A dog which knew it for the fool it was	G
Perhaps it was a member of the Union	B2
Who votes as often as he does not speak	W
And recommends as wildly as he spells	G
Its income was as much beyond its merits	G
As less than its inane expenditure	D
Its conversation stood to common sense	G
As stands the Sporting Times its favourite print	E
To wit or humour It was seldom drunk	W
But seldom sober when it went to bed	E
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The mean contents of these superior clothes	G
Were they but duly trained by careful hands	G
And castigated with remorseless zeal	C2
Endowed with purpose gifted with a mind	E
And taught to work or play or talk or laugh	D2
Might possibly aspire I do not know	E2
To pass in time for what they dare to scorn	F2
An ordinary undergraduate	E
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What did this thing crawling 'twixt heaven and earth	G2
Amid the network of our grimy streets	G
What end was it intended to subserve	D2
What lowly mission fashioned to neglect	E
It did not seem to wish for a degree	W
And what its object was I do not know	E2
Unless it was to catch the tardy tram	N

James Kenneth Stephen

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