It Is a Virtue in Ingenuous Youth

It is a virtue in ingenuous youth,
To leave off lying and return to truth,
For well it's known that all religious morals
Are caused by Bass's Ale and South Atlantic Corals.

[from The Complete Nonsense Book,
edited by Lady Strachey, 1912, p. 428.
Etext prepared by Doug Love.]

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