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In short, if your body or mind
Or your soul or your purse come to grief,
You need only get drunk, and you'll find
Complete and immediate relief.

— James Kenneth Stephen Lapsus Calami (1891)

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First published in The Reflector (January 1891) | 4th ed. (August 1891)

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To see Good Tennis! What divine joy
Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ?
Let other people play at other things;
The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.

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Republic of the West,
Enlightened, free, sublime,
Unquestionably best
Production of our time.

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When the Rudyards cease from Kipling
And the Haggards ride no more.

I do not want to see that girl again:
I did not like her: and I should not mind
If she were done away with, killed, or ploughed.
She did not seem to serve a useful end:
And certainly she was not beautiful.

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