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Vicious and sincere, / The black derby hat flaunts itself / Upon the head of an amateur libertine.
The libertine is a nervous rascal / Asking too many favors / From one spear-point exalted by men, / But the black derby hat, / Poised and incorruptible, / Curves its black no to the senses.