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Poem by Menella Bute Smedley


Moral


At the moral of this song
Let no foolish fellow scoff;
If your beard is thought too long,
You had better cut it off.
What the barber typifies
Is so plain to honest eyes,
That its meaning to define
Never shall be act of mine.



Menella Bute Smedley


Menella Bute Smedley's other poems:
  1. The Brethren of Port Royal
  2. Hunting the Wind
  3. Jack and Ned
  4. Feeding the Fairies
  5. April Showers


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