The Perjury Of A Rejected Lover

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Title:     The Perjury Of A Rejected Lover
Author: John Kendrick Bangs [More Titles by Bangs]

WHEN I was twenty-one, I swore,
If I should ever wed,
The maiden that I should adore
Should have a classic head;
Should have a form quite Junoesque;
A manner full of grace;
A wealth of hirsute picturesque
Above a piquant face.

But I, alas! am perjured, for
I’ve wed a dumpy lass
I much despised in days of yore,
Of quite the plainest class,
Because each maiden of my dream,
Whose favor I did seek,
Was so opposed unto my scheme
I married Jane in pique.

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John Kendrick Bangs's poem: Perjury Of A Rejected Lover

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