Even Fairer than the rose, of all flowers the fairest;
Beyond Vatican’s Apollo Belvedere;
Bud McDonald, youth’s soul-mate, of beauty the rarest,
Adolescent wert thou without peer!
First, Beau Brummel wert thou, so fussy about clothes,
O immaculate Buddie McDee!
Dirt and slovenness cat, never more than thou, loaths;
Must be brushed every hour from dust free;
Every lock of thine hair with worried care laid in place;
As a girl didst thou prink—I can vow!