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Original text: The Burgess Nonsense Book Being a Complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess, Esq. (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1901): 24-25.
Publication date note: The Purple Cow! (San Francisco: Doxey, 1895)
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 4:2002/1/23

Rhyme: abab