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 —The exquisite Gorilla Girl.

He sometimes, in this giddy whirl

(Not being really bad at heart),

Remembered Shakespeare with a start—

But not with that grand constancy

Of Clement Shorter, Herbert Tree,

Lord Rosebery and Comyns Carr

And all the other names there are;

Who stuck like limpets to the spot,

Lest they forgot, lest they forgot.

Lord Lilac was of slighter stuff;

Lord Lilac had had quite enough.