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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357881" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fortunes of Grandison Lee</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now Percival Gregory Grandison-Lee<br>He came of a fine old stock.<br>His sire was an eminent K.C.B,<br>But Percival never appeared to be<br>A chip off that shrewd old block.<br>In spite of the strain<br>He was weak of brain,<br>Though a jolly good fellow was he.<br>And, to tell the truth,<br>In his gilded youth<br>His manner of living was free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Now Percival's father, the elder Lee,<br>Aspired to the House of Lords;<br>So he earnestly sought for the £ s. d.<br>Becoming a prominent guinea-pig, he<br>Was chairman of numerous Boards.<br>But the game was rash,<br>And there came a smash,<br>And he perished of felo-de-se.<br>And up to his neck,<br>In the subsequent wreck<br>Was Percival Grandison-Lee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>So Percy resigned from the King's armee;<br>He couldn't maintain the style.<br>And, after a harrowing period, he<br>Was faced by the spectre of bank-rupt-cee,<br>His schedule he had to file.<br>He smiled through court<br>Like a hardy sport,<br>But he sorrowed in privacee;<br>For an easy job<br>For a hard-up nob<br>Isn't growing on every tree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He touched then for tenners so frequentlee<br>That the friends of Lee, deceased,<br>A length procession of loans could see,<br>And they whispered to one of the Ministree<br>As Percival's plans increased.<br>Thus they shipped him off<br>As a gilded toff<br>On the staff of a high grandee<br>To earn his bread<br>As a figurehead <br>And a Governor's A.D.C.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In that country of democrats o'er the sea<br>The cream of Society's cream<br>They worship a feathered and frilled grandee,<br>And e'er on his gorgeous A.D.C.<br>The 'nicest' are ready to beam.<br>His boots were tight,<br>And his hat was bright,<br>And his tie was a fantasee;<br>And the wealthiest girls -<br>Society's pearls <br>Just loved his refulgency.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He strolled in the wake of the high grandee<br>In his glittering uniform;<br>At frivols and functions and afternoon tea<br>He lolled with a manner so easy and free<br>That he took the girls by storm.<br>And he wooed a maid<br>Of the sheep brigade,<br>One of the squatocracee,<br>With a station Outback<br>And a house at Toorak,<br>And they wedded right merrilee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Now Percival Gregory Grandison-Lee<br>In his London club doth dwell;<br>He squats at his ease through a deputee<br>That idle and valueless absentee,<br>And says that this land is Hell;<br>But once every year<br>For the Cup he's here,<br>As the master of Bungabaree;<br>Our well-equipped courses<br>And galloping horses<br>Are all that appeal to Lee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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He came of a fine old stock.
His sire was an eminent K.C.B,
But Percival never appeared to be
A chip off that shrewd old block.
In spite of the strain
He was weak of brain,
Though a jolly good fellow was he.
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