Good-better-best

Ellis Parker Butler

When young, in tones quite positive
  I said, “The world shall see
That I can keep myself from sin;
  A good man I will be.”

But when I loved Miss Kate St. Clair
  ’Twas thus my musing ran:
“I cannot be compared with her;
  I’ll be a better man.”

’Twas at the wedding of a friend
  (He married Kate St. Clair)
That I became superlative,
  For I was “best man” there.

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