[Nearly that time again!]
St. Valentine! The inspiration
Of Poets, through each generation!
From his decease to modern times
The poor chap's had some awful rhymes ...
Try these two lines - they make me wince -
(Though worse ones have been written since -)
"Hail, Bishop Valentine, whose day this is.
All the air is thy Diocese ... !"
We can do better far than those,
For instance, we can rhyme the rose,
And moon and noon and croon and tune,
And spoon and June and honeymoon ...
Right then, my friends: our turn is come
Let's verse the Saint until he's numb!
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St. Valentine! The inspiration
Of Poets, through each generation!
From his decease to modern times
The poor chap's had some awful rhymes ...
Try these two lines - they make me wince -
(Though worse ones have been written since -)
"Hail, Bishop Valentine, whose day this is.
All the air is thy Diocese ... !"
We can do better far than those,
For instance, we can rhyme the rose,
And moon and noon and croon and tune,
And spoon and June and honeymoon ...
Right then, my friends: our turn is come
Let's verse the Saint until he's numb!
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