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Identifier: bashfulearthquak00herf (find matches)
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
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a joy to see, âAnd at their club-house neath the seaArrived at â¢something after three Promptly (unpunctuality Is something I detest).Ihe President, a mermaid fair,Sat by a coral table,And read an essay with an airIntelligent and ableUpon â but you will never guessThe subject â it was nothing lessThan sunshades and umhrellas.I really did my very bestTo keep from laughing â as their guest.107 ±hat it was hard must be confessedWhen next the meeting was addressedOn shoes, and which would wear the best â Tan slippers or prunellas.Then came (it did look like a joke)Essays on ho7inet, hat, and toque:Said I, ^They must be mocking.And when at length a mermaid rose,And read a thesis to exposeThe latest novelty in hose, I felt my reason rocking.But when at last the thing was oer,And I was back again on shore, I fell to moralizing.And as remembrance came to meOf other clubs not in the sea.Of essays read by ladies fairUpon the why and whence and ^ where, Said I, ^Its not surprising.
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108 A SONG.

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