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"Good - Better - Best" from New England Magazine

by Ellis Parker Butler
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from New England Magazine
Good - Better - Best
by Ellis Parker Butler

When young, in tones quite positive
    I said, "The world shall see
That I can keep myself from sin;
    A good man I will be."

But when I loved Miss Kate St. Clair
    'Twas thus my musing ran:
"I cannot be compared with her;
    I'll be a better man."

'Twas at the wedding of a friend
    (He married Kate St. Clair)
That I became superlative,
    For I was "best man" there.


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