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]A SONG OF COMPROMISE.
If you cannot be the needle, be the thread;
If you cannot ride a motor, be a ped.;
If you cannot cut the figure
Of a bloke chockful of vigour,
Please be dead—
’Tis the softest snap of any to be dead.
If you cannot be a hero, be a skunk;
If you cannot be the barman, be the drunk;
If you cannot scale Parnassus