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Robert Graves - A Slice Of Wedding CakeRobert Graves - A Slice Of Wedding Cake
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Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls     Married impossible men?   Simple self-sacrifice may be ruled out,     And missionary endeavour, nine times out of ten.   Repeat `impossible men`:  not merely rustic,     Foul-tempered or depraved   (Dramatic foils chosen to show the world     How well women behave, and always have behaved).         Impossible men:  idle, illiterate,     Self-pitying, dirty, sly,   For whose appearance even in City parks     Excuses must be made to casual passers-by.   Has God`s supply of tolerable husbands     Fallen, in fact, so low?   Or do I always over-value woman     At the expense of man?                         Do I?                                 It might be so.
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