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Clough: Dipsychus
It's all very well to be handsome and tall,
Which certainly makes you look well at a ball;
It's all very well to be clever and witty,
But if you are poor, why it's only a pity.
So needful it is to have money, heigh-ho!
So needful it is to have money.
There's something undoubtedly in a fine air,
To know how to smile and be able to stare.
High breeding is Isomething, but well-bred or not,
In the end the one question is, what have you got.
So needful it is to have money, heigh-ho!
So needful it is to have money.
And the angels in pink and the angels in blue,
In muslins and moires so lovely and new,
What is it they want, and so wish you to guess,
But if you have money, the answer is Yes.
So needful, they tell you, is money, heigh-ho!
So needful it is to have money.
A. H. CLOUGH
EPIGRAM
ON SIR ROGER PHILLIMORE (1810-1885) AND
HIS BROTHER, GEORGE PHILLIMORE
When Nature dreamt of making bores,
She formed a brace of Phillimores;
Sooner than make a Phillimost,
Nature herself would yield the ghost,
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ANON