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A RETORT UNCOURTEOUS by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON

First Line: WHERE LONDON'S CITY SKIRTS THE THAMES
Last Line: "A NEVER-WAS-ER LIKE YOURSELF."
Subject(s): LONDON; QUARRELS; WOMEN; ARGUMENTS; DISAGREEMENTS;
WHERE London's city skirts the Thames,
In ball-room met two rival dames;
Quoth one, "Why all this youthful sham?
You now are but a @3has-been,@1 ma'am."
" 'Tis better far," was the reply,
"To be a @3has-been@1 such as I,
Than still to hang upon the shelf,
A @3never-was-er@1 like yourself."



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