MRS. BRIGGS

Her ample breasts like moons are seen

Beneath her thin alpaca blouse.

Mrs. Briggs of Sausage Green,

She is an old Egyptian queen,

And she has Cheops Briggs for spouse.

And when she shouts down Turnip Street,

"Lawks! of all the dirty sights!

'Enry, quit that puddle quick!"

She has the regal voice that beat

The eardrums of the Israelites,

And turned the tribal bosoms sick.

But when 'Enry drooped and ailed,

And 'Enry from her side was torn

In a hearse down Dingy Lane,

O she wept the lad in vain,

As that other queen bewailed

The slaying of the eldest born.

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