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    Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse
    Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse
    Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse
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    Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse

    By Edwin Carty Ranck

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse - Edwin Carty Ranck

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      Title: Poems for Pale People

      A Volume of Verse

      Author: Edwin C. Ranck

      Release Date: October 9, 2008 [EBook #26864]

      Language: English

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      Poems for Pale People

      A Volume of Verse

      By

      Edwin C. Ranck

      Humanity Printing and Publishing Co.

      St. Louis, Mo.

      Copyrighted 1906 by

      EDWIN C. RANCK

      PREFACE

      This little volume was written for no reason on earth and with no earthly reason. It just simply happened, on the principle, I suppose that murder will out. Murder is a bad thing and so are nonsense rhymes. There is often a valid excuse for murder; there is none for nonsense rhymes. They seem to be a necessary evil to be classed with smallpox, chicken-pox, yellow fever and other irruptive diseases. They are also on the order of the boomerang and eventually rebound and inflict much suffering on the unlucky verse-slinger. So you see nonsense, like a little learning is a dangerous thing and should be handled with as much care as the shotgun which is never known to be loaded.

      A man who writes nonsense may become in time a big gun. But this is rare; more often he becomes a small bore. This appears paradoxical and will probably require thinking over, but the more you think it over the less you will understand. This is true of parlor magic. It is also true of the magazine poets. It really never pays to think. Thinking is too much like work. After reading these rhymes you will not think that the writer ever did think, which after all is the right way to think.

      When Dryden wrote Alexander's Feast he modestly stated that it was the grandest poem ever written. Mr. Dryden evidently believed this or he wouldn't have said so. But then every one did not agree with Mr. Dryden. Now I am going one step further and will positively state that the writer of this volume is the greatest poetical genius who has not yet died in infancy.

      This is an astounding statement but it can be corroborated by admiring friends, for the writer is like a certain brand of children's food in that he is advertised by his loving friends.

      Speaking of Alexander's Feast it simply cannot be compared to any one of the finished, poetic gems in this collection because it is so utterly different. The difference is what made Dryden famous. But comparisons are odious, and Mr. Dryden has been dead several years.

      But what, you may ask, is the object of nonsense verse? Most assuredly to make one laugh. That masterpiece of nonsense Alice In Wonderland and its companion volume Through The Looking Class are absurd books, but their very absurdity is what appeals to us most. Their author, Mr. Lewis Carroll was, in private life a very sober gentleman (at least we hope so). Nonsense is the salt

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