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A line-o'-verse or two - Bert Leston Taylor
Bert Leston Taylor
A line-o'-verse or two
EAN 8596547253631
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Table of Contents
TO MY READERS
THE LAY OF ST. AMBROSE
TO A TALL SPRUCE
IN THE LAMPLIGHT
THE BREAKFAST FOOD FAMILY
TREASURE ISLAND
A BALLADE OF SPRING’S UNREST
WHY?
THE RIME OF THE CLARK STREET CABLE
MISS LEGION
A BALLADE OF DEATH AND TIME
THE KAISER’S FAREWELL TO PRINCE HENRY
TO LILLIAN RUSSELL
DORNRÖSCHEN
FAREWELL!
REFORM IN OUR TOWN
WHEN THE SIRUP’S ON THE FLAPJACK
BREAD PUDDYNGE
MUSCA DOMESTICA
THE PASSIONATE PROFESSOR
A BALLADE OF WOOL-GATHERING
TO THE SUN
WHEN IT IS HOT
THE SIMPLE, HEARTFELT LAY
I
TO ARISTIUS FUSCUS
II
DUETTO
III
TO PYRRHA
IV
TO ARISTIUS FUSCUS
V
TO SYLVIA
A BALLAD OF MISFITS
AN ORIENTAL APOLOGY
THE DAY OF THE COMET
A BALLADE OF IRRESOLUTION
TO WHAT BASE USES!
HOW THEY MIGHT HAVE BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS
THE DINOSAUR
A BALLADE OF CAP AND BELLS
GENTLE DOCTOR BROWN
IN THE GALLERY
ALWAYS
THE MODERN MARINER
A BALLADE OF THE CANNERY
PANDEAN PIPEDREAMS
THE LAUNDRY OF LIFE
WISDOM IN A CAPSULE
THE LAND OF RAINBOW’S-END
A BALLADE OF A BORE
THE POLE
SH-H-H-H!
THE VANISHED FAY
AUTUMN REVERY
THE RECOIL
THE CORONATION
SONS OF BATTLE
MY LADY NEW YORK
BALLADE OF THE PIPESMOKE CARRY
POST-VACATIONAL
THE BARDS WE QUOTE
THE PERSISTENT POET
HENCE THESE RIMES
Index
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Footnote
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For the privilege of reprinting the rimes gathered here I am indebted to the courtesy of the Chicago Tribune and Puck, in whose pages most of them first appeared. The Lay of St. Ambrose
is new.
One reason for rounding up this fugitive verse and prisoning it between covers was this: Frequently—more or less—I receive a request for a copy of this jingle or that, and it is easier to mention a publishing house than to search through ancient and dusty files.
The other reason was that I wanted to.
B. L. T.
TO MY READERS
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Not merely of this book,—but a larger company, with whom, through the medium of the Chicago Tribune, I have been on very pleasant terms for several years,—this handful of rime is joyously dedicated.
THE LAY OF ST. AMBROSE
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"And hard by doth dwell, in St. Catherine’s cell,
Ambrose, the anchorite old and grey."
—The Lay of St. Nicholas.
Ambrose the anchorite old and grey
Larruped himself in his lonely cell,
And many a welt on his pious pelt
The scourge evoked as it rose and fell.
For hours together the flagellant leather
Went whacketty-whack with his groans of pain;
And the lay-brothers said, with a wag of the head,
Ambrose has been at the bottle again.
And such, in sooth, was the sober truth;
For the single fault of this saintly soul
Was a desert thirst for the cup accurst,—
A quenchless love for the Flowing Bowl.
When he woke at morn with a head forlorn
And a taste like a last-year swallow’s nest,
He would kneel and pray, then rise and flay
His sinful body like all possessed.
Frequently tempted, he fell from grace,
And as often he found the devil to pay;
But by diligent scourging and diligent purging
He managed to keep Old Nick at bay.
This was the plight of our anchorite,—
An endless penance condemned to dree,—
When it chanced one day there came his way
A Mystical Book with a golden Key.
This Mystical Book was a guide to health,
That none might follow and go astray;
While a turn of the Key unlocked the wealth
That all unknown in the Scriptures lay.
Disease is sin, the Book defined;
Sickness is error to which men cling;
Pain is merely a state of mind,
And matter a non-existent thing.
If a tooth should ache, or a leg should break,
You simply affirm
and it’s sound again.
Cut and contusion are only delusion,
And indigestion a fancied pain.
For pain is naught if you