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What influence, in due time and place
Short-stories have had upon our race!
Who for cold logic may lack the sense,
Still lists to the logic of strange events.
A Sultan learned of marital rights,
Through story-spangled Arabian Nights;
Scheherezade thus gathered fame
As saver of life in days long gone,
Boccaccio won a philosopher's name,
With wise and foolish Decamerone;
Grim Rabelais made good-natured sneers
To sharp-edged scalpels and bright rapiers;
Cervantes furnished a story-cure
For sundry dudes of literature;
“Abe” Lincoln pointed his precepts well,
With stories we might and might not tell;
Short-stories have had upon our race!
Who for cold logic may lack the sense,
Still lists to the logic of strange events.
A Sultan learned of marital rights,
Through story-spangled Arabian Nights;
Scheherezade thus gathered fame
As saver of life in days long gone,
Boccaccio won a philosopher's name,
With wise and foolish Decamerone;
Grim Rabelais made good-natured sneers
To sharp-edged scalpels and bright rapiers;
Cervantes furnished a story-cure
For sundry dudes of literature;
“Abe” Lincoln pointed his precepts well,
With stories we might and might not tell;
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