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Poems 1918-21 :

including three portraits and four cantos
  
  
  
  
  
  

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III. III

Soirée

UPON learning that the mother wrote verses,
And that the father wrote verses,
And that the youngest son was in a publisher's office,
And that the friend of the second daughter
was undergoing a novel,
The young American pilgrim
Exclaimed:
"This is a darn'd clever bunch!"