Social Commentaries
The Baby's Baedeker: Iceland
From Verse and Worse (1905)
Social Commentaries
The climate is intensely cold;
Wild curates would not drag me there;
Not tho' they brought great bags of gold,
And piled them underneath my chair.
If twenty bishops bade me go,
I should decidedly say, 'No!'
MORAL
If ev'ry man has got his price,
As generally is agreed,
You will, by taking my advice,
Let yours be very large indeed.
Corruption is not nice at all,
Unless the bribe be far from small.
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MLA
Graham, Harry. “The Baby's Baedeker: Iceland.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/graham_h/58/.
Chicago
Graham, Harry. “The Baby's Baedeker: Iceland.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/graham_h/58/.
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