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I know I'm dull. I know I got a brain / That's only fit fer fertilizin' 'air. / I don't arst for bokays: I ain't that vain; / But fair is fair. / An' when yeh think yer somethin' uv a man, / It 'urts to find yerself a also-ran.
'Urts like one thing. To git sent to the pack / When you 'ave 'ad idears you're ace an' king / An' all the pitcher cards down to the jack / Is like to sting / Yer vanity. I thort I was some use, / An' now I'm valyid as a 'umble dooce.