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VILLANELLE OF TE 'GALLERY BOYS'; TO L.W. AND F.C.M.B. by AUSTIN PHILIPS

First Line: LIGHT OF HEART, AND JOYOUS-LIPPED
Last Line: NECTAR 'MONGST 'THE GODS' I SIPPED!
Subject(s): FRIENDSHIP; KINDNESS;

LIGHT of heart, and joyous-lipped,
From scholastic trammels free,
Nectar 'mongst 'the Gods' I sipped.

Heedless of the rain that dripped,
Waited at the shrine of Tree,
Light of heart and joyous-lipped.

In the tier whence bourgeois flipped
Nutshells on nobility,
Nectar 'mongst 'the Gods' I sipped;

Laughing loud when Leno quipped—
All his jests were new to @3me@1—
Light of heart and joyous-lipped.

Am'rous of the trine that tripped
At the dear old 'Gaiety',
Nectar 'mongst 'the Gods' I sipped.

Twice-told tales nor jarred nor hipped—
Nothing @3then@1 banality!—
Light of heart and joyous-lipped,
Nectar 'mongst 'the Gods' I sipped!



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