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Title: The bashful earthquake & other fables and verses
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Herford, Oliver, 1863-1935
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nd lutes and violas and things.What do they do ? What do they playTo while eternity away ?After much pondering profound,Perhaps an answer I have found —I give it you for what its worth.The people now upon this earth. Who neither quite deserve to go Above hereafter, nor below — The prig, the poser, and the crank ; The snob, who thinks of naught but rank; The gossip and the fool — in short,110 All nuisances of every sort —Will change into amusing toysFor little angel girls and boys.The braggart will confer a boonBy changing to a toy balloon :The snob tuft-hunter and the boreTo shuttlecock and battledoreWill turn ; the highfalutin wightsThe angel boys will fly as kites jThe gossip then will cease his prattle,And be an angel babys rattle ;The prig — but you have got me thereWhether in heaven, or elsewhere,T is quite impossible to seeWhat kind of use the prig can be;By what inscrutable design,Or by what accident divine,Or what impenetrable jestHe was evolved, can neer be guessed.
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