They gently broke it to
The loving mother hen.
She only said, in fun,
“I fear you’re spoiled, my son!”
Frank Gelett Burgess, one time editor of The Lark, a short-lived humorous periodical, is at his best in the realms of sheer nonsense. His Purple Cow has a nation-wide reputation and his humorous excursions into the French Forms are always marked by exact precision as to rule and law.
THE PURPLE COW
I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’d rather see than be one.