English Poetry. Menella Bute Smedley. Moral. Менелла Бьют Смедли.

Menella Bute Smedley (Менелла Бьют Смедли)

Moral

At the moral of this song
Let no foolish fellow scoff;
If your beard is thought too long,
You had better cut it off.
What the barber typifies
Is so plain to honest eyes,
That its meaning to define
Never shall be act of mine.

Menella Bute Smedley’s other poems:

1. Wooden Legs
2. The Story of Queen Isabel
3. The Little White Doe
4. Two Journeys
5. The Wedding-Ring

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