“Too bad, I'm no poet,
I happen to know it, But anyway
Here's a roundelay
I wrote last night about you…”

—  Cole Porter

"Ev'rything I Love" (1941)
Let's Face It (1941)

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American composer and songwriter 1891–1964

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