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Sir William S. Gilbert

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You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your complicated state of mind,
The meaning doesn’t matter if it’s only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
And everyone will say,
As you walk your mystic way,
“If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me,
Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!”

Sir William S. Gilbert

“

Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band,
If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medieval hand.
And everyone will say,
As you walk your flowery way,
“If he’s content with a vegetable love, which would certainly not suit me,
Why, what a most particularly pure young man this pure young man must be!”

Sir William S. Gilbert

“

A wandering minstrel I—
A thing of shreds and patches,
Of ballads, songs and snatches,
And dreamy lullaby!

Sir William S. Gilbert

“

As innocent as a new-laid egg.

Sir William S. Gilbert

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