THE ARTIST


The Artist and his Luckless Wife
They lead a horrid haunted life,
Surrounded by things he's made
That are not wanted by the trade.

The world is very fair to see;
The Artist will not let it be;
He fiddles with the works of God,
And makes the look uncommon odd.

The Artist is an awful man,
He does not do the things he can;
He does the things he cannot do,
And we attend the private view.

The Artist uses honest paint
To represent things as they ain't,
He then asks money for the time
It took to perpetrate the crime

by Sir Walter Raleigh and taken from Verse and Worse




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