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They soon became like brothers from community of wrongs;
They wrote each other little odes and sang each other songs;
They told each other anecdotes disparaging their wives;
On several occasions, too, they saved each other’s lives.
Author: Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck
Category: brothers
Attribution: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911), British parodist, librettist. Etiquette (l. 49–52). . .
Fireside Book of Humorous Poetry, The. William Cole, ed. (1959) Simon and Schuster.
