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A funny thing once happened to a German from Berlin,
For once he got too gay and seized a swordfish by the fin,
This made the big fish angry, and he sawed the German's chin....

(Written in collaboration with R. B. Hamilton.)


When Julius Caesar met his death,
He muttered in his dying breath:
"It is not patriotism now
Prompts you to break your friendship's vow."...

You lived in a land horror-haunted,
And wrote with a pen half-divine;
You drank bitter sorrow, undaunted
And cast precious pearls before swine.

A young girl stands
Upon the sands,
And waves her hands--
Flirtation.

A fresh young man
With shoes of tan,
Looks spick and span--
Expectation.

They walk the beach,...