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MARTIAL IN LONDON, by                    
First Line: Exquisite wines and comestibles
Last Line: And I'll envy no rothschild his million.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Subject(s): Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


EXQUISITE wines and comestibles,
From Slater, and Fortnum and Mason;
Billiard, ecarte, and chess tables;
Water in vast marble basin;
Luminous books (not voluminous)
To read under beech-trees cacuminous;
One friend, who is fond of a distich,
And doesn't get too syllogistic;
A valet, who knows the complete art
Of service -- a maiden, his sweetheart:
Give me these, in some rural pavilion,
And I'll envy no Rothschild his million.





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