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'S Albert Edward,

well meaning but

flighty,

Who invited King Arthur,

the blameless and

mighty,

To meet Alcibiades and

Aphrodite*

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IS Columbust who

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How to balance an egg—to the utter disdain

Of Confucius, Carlyle,

Cleopatra, and Cain*

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shocks

The feelings of Fenelon,

Faber, and Fox*

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IS Godiva, whose

great bareback

feat

She kindly but firmly de-

clines to repeat,

Though Gounod and

Goldsmith implore

and entreat*

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IS for Handel,

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Howells and Homer,

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Ingersoll

hasten away*

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To Jonah, who tells him

his tale

of a fish*

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who kindly-

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Some original verses to

Kipling and

Keats*

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IS Lafontaine,

who finds he's

unable

To interest Luther and

Lis^t in his fable,

While Loie continues

to dance on the table*

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shrouded

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With Nero, Narcissus,

and Nordau, to whom

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manual of arms with

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IS for Oliver^

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On Omar, that awfully

dissolute Persian,

Though secretly longing

to join the diversion*

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IS for Peter^ who

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Through the keyhole to

Paine, Paderewski,

and Poe*

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IS the Queen,

so noble

and free—

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To RoUo and Rembrandt,

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IS for Swinburne^

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the beautiful, visits the Zoo,

Where he chances on Sap-

pho and Mr* Sardou,

And Socrates, all with the

same end in view*

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IS for Talleyrand

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Miss Truth,

By the side of her well,

in a glass of vermouth,

And presenting Mark

Twain as the friend

of his youths

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IS for Undine,

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Ulysses

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sang and played

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pained Wesley and Watts,

But Washington said he

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IS Xantippe,

who's having

her say.

And frightening the

army of Xerxes

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IS for Young,

the great

Mormon saint,

Who thinks little YumYum and Yvette so

quaint,

He has to be instantly

held in restraint*

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IS for Zola,

presenting

La Terre

To Zenobia the brave

and Zuleika the fair.

Whose blushes they

artfully conceal with

their hair*

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This Alphabet of Celebrities

written & pictured by Oliver

Herford with a border & initial

letters by Bertram Grosvenor

Goodhue and end papers &cover design by E. B. Bird is

printed for Small Maynard &Company at the Heintzemann

Press in Boston U. S. A. in

the month of November

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