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    The Re-echo Club
    The Re-echo Club
    The Re-echo Club
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    The Re-echo Club

    By Carolyn Wells

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateOct 1, 1987
    The Re-echo Club
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    Carolyn Wells

    Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American poet, librarian, and mystery writer. Born in Rahway, New Jersey, Wells began her career as a children’s author with such works as At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), The Jingle Book (1899), and The Story of Betty (1899). After reading a mystery novel by Anna Katharine Green, Wells began focusing her efforts on the genre and found success with her popular Detective Fleming Stone stories. The Clue (1909), her most critically acclaimed work, cemented her reputation as a leading mystery writer of the early twentieth century. In 1918, Wells married Hadwin Houghton, the heir of the Houghton-Mifflin publishing fortune, and remained throughout her life an avid collector of rare and important poetry volumes.

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      THE RE-ECHO CLUB

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      CAROLYN WELLS

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      DIVERSIONS OF THE RE-ECHO CLUB

      Arecent discovery has brought to light the long-hidden papers of the Re-Echo Club. This is a great find, and all lovers of masterpieces of the world's best literature will rejoice with us that we are enabled to publish herewith a few of these gems of great minds. Little is known of the locale or clientèle of this club, but it was doubtless a successor of the famous Echo Club of Boston memory, for, like that erudite body, it takes pleasure in trying to better what is done. On the occasion of the meeting of which the following gems of poesy are the result, the several members of the club engaged to write up the well-known tradition of the Purple Cow in more elaborate form than the quatrain made famous by Mr. Gelett Burgess:

      "I never saw a Purple Cow,

      I never hope to see one;

      But I can tell you, anyhow,

      I'd rather see than be one."

      The first attempt here cited is the production of Mr. John Milton:

      Hence, vain, deluding cows.

      The herd of folly, without color bright,

      How little you delight,

      Or fill the Poet's mind, or songs arouse!

      But, hail! thou goddess gay of feature!

      Hail! divinest purple creature!

      Oh, Cow, thy visage is too bright

      To hit the sense of human sight.

      And though I'd like, just once, to see thee,

      I never, never, never'd be thee!

      MR. P. BYSSHE SHELLEY:

      Hail to thee, blithe spirit!

      Cow thou never wert;

      But in life to cheer it

      Playest thy full part

      In purple lines of unpremeditated art.

      The pale purple color

      Melts around thy sight

      Like a star, but duller,

      In the broad daylight.

      I'd see thee, but I would not be thee if I might.

      We look before and after

      At cattle as they browse;

      Our most hearty laughter

      Something sad must rouse.

      Our sweetest songs are those that tell of Purple Cows.

      MR. W. WORDSWORTH:

      She dwelt among the untrodden ways

      Beside the springs of Dee;

      A Cow whom there were few to praise

      And very few to see.

      A violet by a mossy stone

      Greeting the smiling East

      Is not so purple, I must own,

      As that erratic beast.

      She lived unknown, that Cow, and so

      I never chanced to see;

      But if I had to be one, oh,

      The difference to me!

      MR. T. GRAY:

      The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

      The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea;

      I watched them slowly wend their weary way,

      But, ah, a Purple Cow I did not see.

      Full many a cow of purplest ray serene

      Is haply grazing where I may not see;

      Full many a donkey writes of her, I ween,

      But neither of these creatures would I be.

      MR. J.

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