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Young Philiper Flash was a promising lad, / His intentions were good -- but oh, how sad / For a person to think / How the veriest pink / And bloom of perfection may turn out bad.
Old Flash himself was a moral man, / And prided himself on a moral plan, / Of a maxim as old / As the calf of gold, / Of making that boy do what he was told.