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Title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne
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THE RUBAIYAT OF
OMAR CAYENNE
BY
GELETT BURGESS
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A STOKES COMPANY
Publishers
Copyright, 1904,
BY
Gelett Burgess
Published December, 1904
THE RUBAIYAT
OF
OMAR CAYENNE
I
Wake! For the Hack can scatter into flight
Shakespere and Dante in a single Night!
The Penny-a-liner is Abroad, and strikes
Our Modern Literature with blithering Blight.
II
Before Historical Romances died,
Methought a Voice from Art's Olympus cried,
"When all Dumas and Scott is still for Sale,
Why nod o'er drowsy Tales, by Tyros tried?"
III
A cock-sure Crew with Names ne'er heard before
Greedily shouted—"Open then the Door!
You know how little Stuff is going to live,
But where it came from there is plenty More."
IV
Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The Artist poor to Calendars aspires,
But of the Stuff the Publisher puts out
Most in the Paper Basket soon suspires.
V
Harum indeed is gone, and Lady Rose,
And Janice Meredith, where no one knows;
But still the Author gushes overtime,
And many a Poet babbles on in Prose.
VI
Aldrich's lips are lock'd; but people
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