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Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)

A Woman's Reason


A WOMAN'S REASON: A Quotation
To put an End to Conversation.

              1I'm Sure every Word that you say is Absurd;
              2I Say it's All Gummidge and Twaddle;
              3You may Argue away till the 19th of May,
              4But I don't like the Sound of the Moddle!


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): 88-89.
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 4:2002/1/23

Rhyme: abcb


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