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This poem by William S Gilbert was written in France, after an attack of typhoid fever which necessitated his head being shaven. 

Standing in the street, he watched Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenie process nearby, and, as the poem states, they ‘observed him with appreciation! . . .'

 

 

To the Emperor she said:

"How beautiful the head

Of that youth of gallant mien,

Cropped so neat and close and clean

Though I own he’s rather lean."

Said the Emperor: "It is!

And I never saw a phiz

More wonderful than 'is."

 

 

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