Excerpt: ...Still, though you shave contragrainious, Footnote: Well, there ought to be. Healing the cut with a lime, Don't I, quite nice and spontaneous, Daily contribute a dime? Mountain of foreign servility, Butcher of chin and of lip. Maugre your marked inability, Do I not fall for the tip? Hope you at Christmas for currency, Fiend of tonsorial tricks? Never was greater aberrancy- Coarsely I say to you, "Nix!" VI TO THE HALL-AND-ELEVATOR-BOY Lo, the West Indian! whose untutored mind To Christmas giving makes me ...
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Excerpt: ...Still, though you shave contragrainious, Footnote: Well, there ought to be. Healing the cut with a lime, Don't I, quite nice and spontaneous, Daily contribute a dime? Mountain of foreign servility, Butcher of chin and of lip. Maugre your marked inability, Do I not fall for the tip? Hope you at Christmas for currency, Fiend of tonsorial tricks? Never was greater aberrancy- Coarsely I say to you, "Nix!" VI TO THE HALL-AND-ELEVATOR-BOY Lo, the West Indian! whose untutored mind To Christmas giving makes me disinclined, Who tellest callers I have moved away And mixest up the morning mail each day. When for thine elevator car I ring Thou telephonest or some other thing; While, when I ask for Byrant Eighty-four, Thou'rt busy somewhere on the seventh floor- I wish thee from my soul all Christmas joy, But not a cent, O Elevator Boy! Ballade of a Hardy Annual Many a jest that refuses to die Bobs up again as the seasons appear; Deathless it hits us again in the eye- Changeless and dull as the calendar year. Musty and mouldy and yellow and sere, Stronger, withal, than the sturdiest oak; Ancient and solemn and deadly and drear- Down with the grandmother-funeral joke! Soon as the snow has forgotten to fly, All through the day of the "leathery sphere," Jokelets and pictures and verses we spy All on the theme of the grandmother dear. Bonnets, umbrellas, and buckets of beer Please us and tickle us quite to the choke. But-on this matter our attitude's clear- Down with the grandmother-funeral joke! Giggle we can at a blueberry pie; Scream at a comedy king or ameer; Simply guffaw when the jestermen guy Marriage, a thing at which no one should jeer. Things that in others elicit a tear All of our risibles simply unyoke; But from this stand we're unwilling to veer: Down with the grandmother-funeral joke! L'ENVOI Brothers in motley, the season is here; Small is the boon that we sadly...
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