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THE LITTLE GROUP GIVES A PAGAN MASQUE


The Little Group gave a party
And all of the gods were there,
From Thor to Miss Susan Astarte
With doo-daddles gemming her hair,


Bill Baldur and Jane Aphrodite,
Dick Vishnu and Benny O'Baal,
And Bacchus came on in a nightie
With little pink snakes on the tail;


Latin, Phœnician and Hindu,
Norse and Egyptian and Chink….
Castor was watching his Twin do
Stunts, with a brotherly wink….


Persephone swearing by Hades….
A Norn and a Sibylline Simp….
A Momus, who showed to the ladies
The latest Olympian limp.


Was Hermione present? By Crikey!
(This Crikey's a Whitechapel joss)

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