did You’d have had those damsels faded.  (That will give you, girl, some notion Of your Flaccus’s devotion.)

  Yep. If I were doing Odes In my quondam favorite modes, With your image to qui-vive me I’d tear off some Ode, believe me!

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[Pg 63]

A BALLAD OF MISFITS

 “Chacun son métier: Les vaches seront bien gardées.” —La Fontaine.

“Chacun son métier:

—La Fontaine.

  With skill for doing this or that The Lord each man endows. Some men are best for pushing pens, And some for pushing plows; And oh, the many many more That should be tending cows! Chacun son métier: Les vaches bien gardées.

The Lord each man endows.

And some for pushing plows;

That should be tending cows!

Chacun son métier:

Les vaches bien gardées.

  The ivory-headed serving maid Who poses as a “cook,”  She hath a very bovine brain, She hath a bovine look. Oh, prithee, lead her to the kine, Oh, prithee get the hook! Chacun son métier: Les vaches bien gardées.

Who poses as a “cook,”

She hath a bovine look.

Oh, prithee get the hook!

Chacun son métier:

Les vaches bien gardées.

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