The Purple Cow
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.
1I NEVER SAW A PURPLE COW,
2 I NEVER HOPE TO SEE ONE;
3BUT I CAN TELL YOU, ANYHOW,
4 I'D RATHER SEE THAN BE ONE!
Publication Notes:
The Purple Cow! (San Francisco: Doxey, 1895)
RPO poem Editors:
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition:
RPO 1998.
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