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Robert Graves - The Well-Dressed Children
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Here`s flowery taffeta for Mary`s new gown:
  Here`s black velvet, all the rage, for Dick`s birthday coat.
Pearly buttons for you, Mary, all the way down,
  Lace ruffles, Dick, for you; you`ll be a man of note.

Mary, here I`ve bought you a green gingham shade
  And a silk purse brocaded with roses gold and blue,
You`ll learn to hold them proudly like colours on parade.
  No banker`s wife in all the town half so grand as you.

I`ve bought for young Diccon a long walking-stick,
  Yellow gloves, well tanned, at Woodstock village made.
I`ll teach you to flourish `em and show your name is DICK,
  Strutting by your sister`s side with the same parade.

On Sunday to church you go, each with a book of prayer:
  Then up the street and down the aisles, everywhere you`ll see
Of all the honours paid around, how small is Virtue`s share.
  How large the share of Vulgar Pride in peacock finery.
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