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Two better friends you wouldn't pass	A
Throughout a summer's day	B
Than DAMON and his PYTHIAS	A
Two merchant princes they	B
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At school together they contrived	C
All sorts of boyish larks	A
And later on together thrived	C
As merry merchants' clerks	A
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And then when many years had flown	D
They rose together till	E
They bought a business of their own	D
And they conduct it still	E
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They loved each other all their lives	A
Dissent they never knew	F
And stranger still their very wives	A
Were rather friendly too	F
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Perhaps you think to serve my ends	A
These statements I refute	G
When I admit that these dear friends	A
Were parties to a suit	G
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But 'twas a friendly action for	H
Good PYTHIAS as you see	A
Fought merely as executor	I
And DAMON as trustee	A
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They laughed to think as through the throng	J
Of suitors sad they passed	K
That they who'd lived and loved so long	J
Should go to law at last	K
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The junior briefs they kindly let	L
Two sucking counsel hold	M
These learned persons never yet	L
Had fingered suitors' gold	M
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But though the happy suitors two	F
Were friendly as could be	A
Not so the junior counsel who	F
Were earning maiden fee	A
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They too till then were friends At school	N
They'd done each other's sums	A
And under Oxford's gentle rule	N
Had been the closest chums	A
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But now they met with scowl and grin	O
In every public place	A
And often snapped their fingers in	O
Each other's learned face	A
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It almost ended in a fight	P
When they on path or stair	Q
Met face to face They made it quite	P
A personal affair	Q
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And when at length the case was called	R
It came on rather late	S
Spectators really were appalled	R
To see their deadly hate	S
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One junior rose with eyeballs tense	A
And swollen frontal veins	A
To all his powers of eloquence	A
He gave the fullest reins	A
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His argument was novel for	H
A verdict he relied	T
On blackening the junior	I
Upon the other side	T
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Oh said the Judge in robe and fur	I
The matter in dispute	G
To arbitration pray refer	I
This is a friendly suit	G
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And PYTHIAS in merry mood	U
Digged DAMON in the side	T
And DAMON tickled with the feud	U
With other digs replied	T
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But oh those deadly counsel twain	V
Who were such friends before	H
Were never reconciled again	W
They quarrelled more and more	H
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At length it happened that they met	L
On Alpine heights one day	B
And thus they paid each one his debt	L
Their fury had its way	B
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They seized each other in a trice	A
With scorn and hatred filled	X
And falling from a precipice	A
They both of them were killed	X

William Schwenck Gilbert

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