A Parody Anthology

by Unknown

IMITATION OF WALT WHITMAN

THE clear cool note of the cuckoo which has ousted the legitimate nest-holder,

The whistle of the railway guard despatching the train to the inevitable collision,

The maiden's monosyllabic reply to a polysyllabic proposal,

The fundamental note of the last trump, which is presumably D natural;

All of these are sounds to rejoice in, yea to let your ribs re-echo with.

But better than all of them is the absolutely last chord of the apparently inexhaustible pianoforte player.

J. K. Stephen.