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E is for Edison, making believe / He's invented a clever contrivance for Eve, / Who complained that she never could laugh in her sleeve.
O is for Oliver, casting aspersion / On Omar, that awfully dissolute Persian, / Though secretly longing to join the diversion.
R's Rubenstein, playing that old thing in F / To Rollo and Rembrandt, who wish they were deaf.
S is for Swinburne, who, seeking the true, / The good, and the beautiful, visits the Zoo, / Where he chances on Sappho and Mr. Sardou, / And Socrates, all with the same end in view.
W's Wagner, who sang and played lots, / For Washington, Wesley and good Dr. Watts; / His prurient plots pained Wesley and Watts, / But Washington said he "enjoyed them in spots."
"Oliver Herford"