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A RETORT UNCOURTEOUS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where london's city skirts the thames
Last Line: "a never-was-er like yourself."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
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 has-been, ma'am."
" 'Tis better far," was the reply,
"To be a has-been such as I,
Than still to hang upon the shelf,
A never-was-er like yourself."





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