Many thanks, Douglas. Think you're right that the uncertain stressing of Anon disturbs the flow a bit. Will probably substitute 'someone' along with other minor tweaks elsewhere. I think the italics and 'someone said' and 'repeat' are enough to establish that I'm not claiming the final couplet as my own but a quote.
It stuck in my mind over many years from a university magazine where the lines it concluded were untited and unsigned as far as I remember.
I think the rest of it ran something like this:
When Samson smote the Philistines
His locks grew long and lush;
Delilah loved the shaggy lines
Of that body like a brush.
Remember, males, to let it grow
Upon the back and sides
So that the ladies long to know
The secret that it hides.
Suitable for town and country wear
There is no substitute for hair.
Come to think of it, the dates and place would fit Brian Allgar, as revealed in the recent thread by Duncan G.M.
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