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C J Dennis - Adulations Artful Aid
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Some of us may be tall, ma`am;
   Some of us may be dark;
Some handsome; tho` not all, ma`am,
   Are touched by Beatury`s spark.
But tall, and dark AND handsome, too?
   Oh, lady!  If you please! .. .. .. .. 
It`s really very nice of you;
But do you think they`re really due --
   Superlatives like these?

We`d hate to doubt your word, ma`am,
   Since you`re informed in art,
Tho` much we`d have preferred, ma`am,
   To play a humbler part.
But in meek deference to you,
   Well, lady, we`ll admit
We`re tall and dark, and handsome, too,
It seems a rather boastful view,
   But one gets used to it.

And now we`re getting used, ma`am,
   To thoughts that flattery brings,
You might well be induced ma`am,
   To say some more nice things.
Are there not moral qualities,
   Innate in each rare male,
That one of your discernment sees --
Truth, strength, wit, wisdom -- things like these?
   Speak, ma`am.  Let truth prevail.

We`re so unused to praise, ma`am,
   So used to blame most dire,
That flattery these days, ma`am,
   Creates a new desire.
A complex quite inferior
   (See Freud) its sickly hue
Cast o`er us.  But if you`d say more
Along such lines -- why, then, Encore!..
   Thanks, ma`am.  The same to you.
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