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No. 18:
Song (Sultan with Chorus)
| Sultan. | ||||
| Let a satirist enumerate a catalogue of crimes Though he label them the outcome of our shallow modern times; |
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| Yet a Persian Punch's pencil, in a prehistoric peep, Would show us human nature just as shallow — or as deep. |
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| It is money more than manners nowadays that make a man; And a man may make his money in such manner as he can; |
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| And the more he makes of it, the more his
friends will make of him — That has always been the way since human sharks began to swim! |
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| And cynics may complain | ||||
| That Society is mixed; | ||||
| But I gather in the main | ||||
| Its ingredients are fixed; | ||||
| And Society has always been a sort of "ginger-pop," The dregs are at the bottom, and the froth is at the top! |
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| Chorus. | ||||
| And Society has always been a sort of "ginger-pop," For the dregs are at the bottom, and the froth is at the top! |
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| Sultan. | ||||
| Now philosophy may frown upon the follies of the froth -- Where bounce has beaten brains and vulgar shoddy's counted cloth, |
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| Where sentiment is "silly," and politeness "out of date," And hearts, instead of golden, are a cheap electro-plate; |
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| But a woman is a woman, and a man is but a man, And the froth has always floated ever since the world began; |
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| And the froth of human nature is the feeble-minded mob Of animated fashion-plates that make the genus "snob." |
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| And cynics may complain | ||||
| That Society is mixed; | ||||
| I am ready to maintain | ||||
| Its ingredients are fixed; | ||||
| And the world of men and women is a social "ginger-pop," The dregs are at the bottom, and the froth is at the top! |
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| Chorus. | ||||
| And the world of men and women is a social "ginger-pop," For the dregs are at the bottom, and the froth is at the top! |
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Exeunt Chorus and Executioner.
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