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Misrepresentative Women
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Too clearly do these pages show it, —
But work is what one can’t escape
And be a Minor Poet;
And critics I may well defy
To find a minor bard than I.
I ought to live out ’Frisco way,
Where working is considered silly,
As Greeley (Horace) used to say, —
Or was it Collier (Willie)? —
“Go West, young man” (I understand),
“Go West and blow up with the land!”
Were I as full of zeal and fun
As Balzac, who could drudge so gaily,
Or diligent as Peter Dunne,
I might accomplish daily
An ode of Pleasure or of Passion
In Ella Wheeler Wilcox fashion;
But, as it is, I sit and toil,
Consuming time and ink and curses
And pints of precious midnight oil
To perpetrate these verses.
If writing them be dull indeed,
Alas! what must they be to read!
notes
1
“As us” is not grammar. – Publishers’ Reader. “As we” is not verse. – H. G.
2
Impossible. – Publishers’ Reader.
These ones were. – H. G.
3
“Till the cows come home”: an old English saying, denoting eternity.
But work is what one can’t escape
And be a Minor Poet;
And critics I may well defy
To find a minor bard than I.
I ought to live out ’Frisco way,
Where working is considered silly,
As Greeley (Horace) used to say, —
Or was it Collier (Willie)? —
“Go West, young man” (I understand),
“Go West and blow up with the land!”
Were I as full of zeal and fun
As Balzac, who could drudge so gaily,
Or diligent as Peter Dunne,
I might accomplish daily
An ode of Pleasure or of Passion
In Ella Wheeler Wilcox fashion;
But, as it is, I sit and toil,
Consuming time and ink and curses
And pints of precious midnight oil
To perpetrate these verses.
If writing them be dull indeed,
Alas! what must they be to read!
notes
1
“As us” is not grammar. – Publishers’ Reader. “As we” is not verse. – H. G.
2
Impossible. – Publishers’ Reader.
These ones were. – H. G.
3
“Till the cows come home”: an old English saying, denoting eternity.
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