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O Duty,
Why hast thou not the visage of a sweetie or a cutie?
Why glitter thy spectacles so ominously?
Why art thou clad so abominously?
Why art thou so different from Venus
And why do thou and I have so few interests mutually in common between us?
Why art thou fifty per cent martyr
And fifty-​one per cent Tartar?

Ogden Nash, from “Kind of an Ode to Duty,” The Face Is Familiar (1941)

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