Hats Off to Mr. Beardsley

The helpless princess gave a little scream carrousel his cut was sharp and was deep the barber left the room on pointed feet they promptly hanged him on meridian street illustrations bourne of feverish dreams a fractured beauty that is not what it seems herodias as an insolent queen the savoys' pages filled with jesters and fiends they just arrested oscar wilde as a crowd starts to boo oh what can they do? the book is yellow but it's turning them green the masquerade portrayed as far from pristine i'd like to toast him 'cause i know it's only faith and taboo oh isn't it true?