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A corpulent man is my bachelor chum	A
With a neck apoplectic and thick	B
An abdomen on him as big as a drum	A
And a fist big enough for the stick	B
With a walk that for grace is clear out of the case	C
And a wobble uncertain as though	D
His little bow legs had forgotten the pace	C
That in youth used to favor him so	D
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He is forty at least and the top of his head	E
Is a bald and a glittering thing	F
And his nose and his two chubby cheeks are as red	E
As three rival roses in spring	F
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His mouth is a grin with the corners tucked in	G
And his laugh is so breezy and bright	H
That it ripples his features and dimples his chin	G
With a billowy look of delight	H
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He is fond of declaring he don't care a straw	I
That the ills of a bachelor's life	J
Are blisses compared with a mother in law	I
And a boarding school miss for a wife	J
So he smokes and he drinks and he jokes and he winks	K
And he dines and he wines all alone	L
With a thumb ever ready to snap as he thinks	K
Of the comforts he never has known	L
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But up in his den Ah my bachelor chum	A
I have sat with him there in the gloom	M
When the laugh of his lips died away to become	A
But a phantom of mirth in the room	M
And to look on him there you would love him for all	N
His ridiculous ways and be dumb	A
As the little girl face that smiles down from the wall	N
On the tears of my bachelor chum	A

James Whitcomb Riley

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