Random Rhymes Of Leisure Hours Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Random Rhymes of Leisure Hours The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, for the St. Andrew's Society. To William Boyd, Cambridge, on a Model Newspaper.' The Press, for the Chicago Printer's and Stationer' s Board of Trade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Random Rhymes Should you ask me why I've written lines like these, bereft of beauty; - Utterly devoid of wisdom, and of cleverness and genius; Naught herein to interest you, to amuse or entertain you - I should answer, I should tell you: Just because it pleased ray fancy! Just because "I had a mind to!" Should you then wax warm and "huffy" at the curtness of my answer, At my reply, curt and churlish; and should ask in accents frigid, In a vein denoting satire: - Do you deem such doggerel poetry? I should calmly make rejoinder: - Was your grandmamma a monkey? Or voire pere a Gila-monster that you thus parade unaided such a doleful lack of sabe? Having courteously responded - to your possible inquiries - I - most humbly and sincerely, write the name bequeathed unto me. "Poet Lariat." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Excerpt from Random Rhymes and Odd Numbers The Average Man wears the average clothes And the average hat on his head He eats at a table and sits on a chair And (normally) sleeps on a bed; For he scorns the eccentric, and never would dare To sleep on a table or eat on a chair. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Random Rhymes and Rhapsodies of the Rail "I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine. I have written the tale of our life For a sheltered people's mirth, In jesting guise, but ye are wise, And ye know what the jest is worth." - Kipling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.