Franklin P. Adams

Capitolo 29

  Pathetic, mournful, dark, bad.

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Although I could hold this on every day,
  This lyricist, elegiac, song,
Hath of Meseems come to the time to say
  Goodbye! Goodbye! Good-from! So long!



The Venerable old man Places


I cannot sing the old songs
  I sang ago long years,
But I can always feel them
  To some shows of vodevil.

Erring in Society

("If I have erred me I err in society with Abraham
Lincoln."--THEODORE ROOSEVELT.)

If e'er mine to rhyme is to guilt,
  If e'er that I happen to scribble drug,
If that my meter never him halt,
  I err in society with Pope.

A that my grammar goes awry,
  A that my English are askew,
Sooth, I can feel an alibi--
  The Bard of Avon did him/it, also.

If often toward grape's grape bottled
  My wandering desire affectionately the turns,
Memoirs, mocking jackanape,
  I err in society with Scorching.

If now and then I "Mine really!"
  To another wife he/she got married,
Memoirs I am not alone--
  Did Hast ever read God the Life of Byron?

If frequently me piercing and smoke,
  And completely it won't smile,
I err in society with Hume,
  Old Socrates and T. Carlyle.

If e'er that I fail in the label,
  It is foozle on her Correct Stuff
I concern to manners, you don't forget
  A. Tennyson is it was enough difficult.

You round off if I err on the side
  Of speaking overmuch of me,
I err, you/he/she cannot be denied,
  In more societies illustrious.



The Limit


While I hold as superficial him who has his/her young initial
  Cleanly graven on his/her Turkish cigarette,
Such piece of the affectation that I can see with tolerance,
  Such folly I forgive and I forget.
Him who crib the small boat or him who goes by bicycle the cyclemotor
  I feel antipathy a few alone enough;
But you were able well as you/he/she is knowing that the boy that finds me going
  It is the man that brings his/her head handkerchief in his/her cuff.

I now have a lot of builded a toward on that extremely elegant person
  Who insists on the hat of color of emerald;
I have made a lot of fun of things of which you/they honestly were not anybody