On The Importance Of Being Earnest

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Title:     On The Importance Of Being Earnest
Author: Franklin P. Adams [More Titles by Adams]

"Gentle Jane was as good as gold,"
To borrow a line from Mr. Gilbert;
She hated War with a hate untold,
She was a pacifistic filbert.
If you said "Perhaps"--she'd leave the hall.
You couldn't argue with her at all.

"Teasing Tom was a very bad boy,"
(Pardon my love for a good quotation).
To talk of war was his only joy,
And his single purpose was Preparation.

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And what both of these children had to say
I never knew, for I ran away.

[The end]
Franklin P. Adams's poem: On The Importance Of Being Earnest

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