A Pessimist Is A Man

My Wit Is More Polished Than Your Mustache. The Truth Which I Speak Strikes More Sparks From Men's Hearts Than Your Spurs Do From The Cobblestones.

A Large Nose Is In Fact The Sign Of An Affable Man, Good, Courteous, Witty, Liberal, Courageous, Such As I Am.

Stay Awhile! 'tis Sweet,. . . The Rare Occasion, When Our Hearts Can Speak Our Selves Unseen, Unseeing!

And If Kisses In These Words Could Travel Too, Madam, You'd Read This Letter With Your Lips.

All My Laurels You Have Riven Away, And My Roses; Yet In Spite Of You, There Is One Crown I Bear Away With Me... One Thing Without Stain, Unspotted From The World, In Spite Of Doom Mine Own! And That Is... My White Plume.