Strip Teaser



My precious grand-child, aged two,
Is eager to unlace one shoe,
          And then the other;
Her cotton socks she'll deftly doff
Despite the mild reproaches of
          Her mother.

Around the house she loves to fare,
And with her rosy tootsies bare,
          Pit-pat the floor;
And though remonstrances we make
She presently decides to take
          Off something more.

Her pinafore she next unties,
And then before we realise,
          Her dress drops down;
Her panties and her brassiere,
Her chemise and her underwear
          Are round her strown.

And now she dances all about,
As naked as a new-caught trout,
          With impish glee;
And though she's beautiful like that,
(A cherubim, but not so fat),
          Quite shocked are we.

And so we dread with dim dismay
Some day she may her charms display
          In skimpy wear;
Aye, even in a gee-string she
May frolic on the stage of the
          Folies-Bèrgere

But e'er she does, I hope she'll read
This worldly wise and warning screed,
          That to conceal,
Unto the ordinary man
Is often more alluring than
          To ALL reveal.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABXXB CCDEED FFGBCG HHIJJI KKCIXB XXLMML
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,078
Words 178
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6

Robert William Service

Robert William Service was a poet and writer sometimes referred to as the Bard of the Yukon He is best-known for his writings on the Canadian North including the poems The Shooting of Dan McGrew The Law of the Yukon and The Cremation of Sam McGee His writing was so expressive that his readers took him for a hard-bitten old Klondike prospector not the later-arriving bank clerk he actually was Robert William Service was born 16 January 1874 in Preston England but also lived in Scotland before emigrating to Canada in 1894 Service went to the Yukon Territory in 1904 as a bank clerk and became famous for his poems about this region which are mostly in his first two books of poetry He wrote quite a bit of prose as well and worked as a reporter for some time but those writings are not nearly as well known as his poems He travelled around the world quite a bit and narrowly escaped from France at the beginning of the Second World War during which time he lived in Hollywood California He died 11 September 1958 in France Incidentally he played himself in a movie called The Spoilers starring John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich more…

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