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The Pantomime Super to His Mask

Vast empty shell!

Impertinent, preposterous abortion!

With vacant stare,

And ragged hair,

And every feature out of all proportion!

Embodiment of echoing inanity!

Excellent type of simpering insanity!

Unwieldy, clumsy nightmare of humanity!

I ring thy knell!

To-night thou diest,

Beast that destroy'st my heaven-born identity!

Nine weeks of nights,

Before the lights,

Swamped in thine own preposterous nonentity,

I've been ill-treated, cursed, and thrashed diurnally,

Credited for the smile you wear externally -I feel disposed to smash thy face, infernally,

As there thou liest!

I've been thy brain:

I'VE been the brain that lit thy dull concavity!

The human

Invest MY

With thine expression of unchecked depravity,

Invested with a ghastly reciprocity,

I'VE been responsible for thy monstrosity,

I, for thy wanton, blundering ferocity -But not again!'T is time to

Thy knell, and that of follies pantomimical:

A nine weeks' run,

And thou hast

All thou canst do to make thyself inimical.

Adieu, embodiment of all inanity!

Excellent type of simpering insanity!

Unwieldy, clumsy nightmare of humanity!

Freed is thy

HE

SK

TH.)Oh! master mine,

Look thou within thee, ere again ill-using me.

Art thou

Of nothing

Which might abuse thee, as thou art abusing me?

A brain that mourns

NE unredeemed rascality?

A soul that weeps at

HY threadbare morality?

Both grieving that

IR

Is merged in thine?

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William Schwenck Gilbert

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his coll…

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