A Demi-French Octave.

(Picked up in a Dressing-room.)

My razor, you're a true raseur,

That is, you bore me badly!

You're blunt, you gash—de tout mon cœur

I bless you wildly, madly!

Vraiment, c'est vous qu' j'ai en horreur

Each morn on rising sadly;

Were't not that shaving's de rigueur,

In turn I'd cut you gladly!