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Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and, Became a Boot-black.
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PoemLine("L0", "", "And lived with all his Sisters where", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His father lived, in Berkeley Square.", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "And oh! The Lad was Deathly Proud!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He never shook your Hand or Bowed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But merely smirked and nodded thus:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How perfectly ridiculous!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Alas! That such Affected Tricks", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should flourish in a Child of Six!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(For such was Young Godolphin's age).", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "Whereat the Lord High Chamberlain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(The Kindest and the Best of Men),", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "A perfectly enormous Book", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "Attendant on His Majesty,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And murmured, as he scanned the list", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "I think I know the kind of thing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A Churchman, cleanly, nobly born,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, let us say Godolphin Horne?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But hardly had he said the word", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Murmurs of Dissent were heard.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The King of Iceland's Eldest Son", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said, \"Thank you! I am taking none!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Aged Duchess of Athlone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Remarked, in her sub-acid tone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"I doubt if He is what we need!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With which the Bishops all agreed;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And even Lady Mary Flood", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(So kind, and oh! So really good)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said, \"No! He wouldn't do at all,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He'd make us feel a lot too small.\"", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "No doubt you're right. One cannot tell!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He took his Gold and Diamond Pen", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And scratched Godolphin out again.", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "Who Blacks the Boots at the Savoy", "") ?>
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