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Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)

On Digital Extremities


On DIGITAL EXTREMITIES:
A Poem, and a Gem it IS!

              1I'd Rather have Fingers than Toes;
              2I'd Rather have Ears than a Nose;
              3     And As for my Hair,
              4     I'm Glad it's All There;
              5I'll be Awfully Sad, when it Goes!


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: The Burgess Nonsense Book Being a Complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess, Esq. (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1901): 26-27.
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 4:2002/1/23

Form: Limerick
Rhyme: aabba


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