Her father has a thousand ceows,
He also had a heap of tin.
The guirl? Of yes, the guirl, you see—
The guirl, just neow she married me.”
Robert Henry Newell, a popular journalist and humorist, wrote over the name of Orpheus C. Kerr. His best known work is the Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, but as a parodist he gives us these burlesque National Hymns.
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BY H—Y W. L-NGF—— W
Back in the years when Phlagstaff, the Dane, was monarch
Over the sea-ribb’d land of the fleet-footed Norsemen,
Once there went forth young Ursa to gaze at the heavens—
Ursa—the noblest of all the Vikings and horsemen.