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A variant closing-stanza of the ode to which I linked above (my favorite part being emphasized):
So we banish the words that Elizabeth used
When she was Queen Virgin and itched on her throne.
The Modern Maid's virtue is easily bruised
Upon meeting the four-letter words on their own.
Let your morals be loose as an alderman's vest
If your language be weaseling, vague and obscure:
Today not the act but the word is the test
Of the vulgar, salacious, obscene and impure.
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