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On Digital Extremities

Burgess, Gelett (1866 - 1951)

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.
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!
RPO poem Editors: 
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition: 
RPO 1998.
Rhyme: 
aabba
Form: 
limerick