In good Victoria's glorious days

When Sammy was a child

Were things perverse a great deal worse?

Is Wildeblood worse than Wilde?

This new Elizabethan age

The ancient pattern fits

When Roister Doister held the stage

And boys were Honest Kit's.

Gomorrah, Pompeii, Corinth, Tyre, Rome, London all a piece

It seems the fat's been in the fire Ere Athens was in Greece.

While Priestley tell the B.B.C.

About the "invert clique"

Why should this Second Samuel flee The bleating of the sheep?

Had he beheld

this Statesman Eld'

The vice of other reigns, Would he thus the "Lily" geld Or throw him to the flames?

Would he idly waste his breath In sniffing round the drains Had he known "King Elizabeth" Or roistering "Queen James"?

MORAL

They say the sins of Sodom

In these Isles have come to roost So if your flying east from GANDER Watch you don't get fairly "goosed".

And if you wish to Pick a Dilly When you're strolling out at night, Just make sure it's not a "Lily" Or a male transvestite.

For there's blackmail in the woodpile And there's blackmail by the fence, But to black male and to white male It's: AVOID THE PUBLIC "GENTS"!

4.5.

Gentse

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