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George Bernard Shaw

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The very name of Bernard Shaw     Fills me with mingled Mirth and Awe.     Mixture of Mephistopheles,     Don Quixote, and Diogenes,     The Devil's wit, the Don's Romance     Joined to the Cynic's arrogance.     Framed on Pythagorean plan,     A Vegetable Souperman.     Here you may see him crown with bay     The Greatest Playwright of his day;[1]     Observe the look of Self Distrust     And Diffidence--upon the bust.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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