This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...it If you also tell Me how to spell "Bourgeois" and why, When I know how to spell it, do I Have to mention it again? Now and then Doesn't it strike you That quite a few Uncomfortable birds Of words Immigrate to this country and After they stand Around Ellis Island for a while They smile Themselves into our ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...it If you also tell Me how to spell "Bourgeois" and why, When I know how to spell it, do I Have to mention it again? Now and then Doesn't it strike you That quite a few Uncomfortable birds Of words Immigrate to this country and After they stand Around Ellis Island for a while They smile Themselves into our language and we make A great fuss over them and take Them out for an airing Every day, never bearing In mind That though we mean to be kind We don't know just what we do mean When, with the Bean Proud of its Pronunciation, we exclaim, With eyes aflame, "He's a Bourgeois" this or that Or a "Proletariat!" We shouldn't be So free With these alien Children of Speech, For when we mention their names each One of them sneaks away To some gray Corner in our brain, lies flat On its little fat Foreign stomach, and laughs itself sick Over the slick Manner in which it has made A nice home for itself in our staid Old Language. Now, all that being so, Let's go Back to Palm Beach, swept By ocean breezes, and kept Gay By Broadway And Forty-second Street; Where you can meet Any Notable of Earth, If the girth Of your roll is wide Enough to permit you to abide In that neighborhood for more Than four Or five days. And where every chaise Longue will uphold From time to time those who are bold In Finance or Statesmanship; If not these, then some one who had the grip And enough dough Togo There and recuperate. Great Writers will tell you That there are two Hotels of the Class A Type, Each with an army of bellhops to swipe Your hand-baggage the moment you Drop off the train due From the North at i:22, And arriving at 8: zg--Late--late for everything except to dine Under the plain But eagle eye of Joe McLane. One of these hostelries, you...
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Seller's Description:
VG in Good- jacket. 8vo. pp. 102. Humorous poems and sketches of life at fashionable Florida resorts. D.j. fragmented. Clean and tight boards/text. A rare copy.
