The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59418 Message #1725990
Posted By: Rapparee
24-Apr-06 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
There is no frigate like lampoon
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing parody.
This travail may e'en the poet take
Without oppress of toil;
How frugal is the copyright
That bares taurian night soil!
Amanda Hortense Dickinsome, For Jessup, Where Ever I May Find Him (Cambridge, Mass.; Hawvawd Universal Press Syndicate, 1898).