. Book of the Royal blue . .\ sweet, tender maiden drew near, with a* tear . Of compassion her fair cheek \ glance of her shy, tender eye, and a sighFor my sorrow, turned night into morning;For Love, with sweet pity, And cheering words eaineAnd won my allegianceFrom Fortvnie and Fame. ^Ayn^.-.^y):, /^Su—.^c^-tlc/c WHEN THIS OLD GAG WAS NEW. (Concerning Any Chestnut.) Wlien this old gag was new,This time-worn monkey-man of Darwins plan Was in the plastic Edens shade the breezes played And over Adam blew,And Eve was as mild as an innocent child When this old
. Book of the Royal blue . .\ sweet, tender maiden drew near, with a* tear . Of compassion her fair cheek \ glance of her shy, tender eye, and a sighFor my sorrow, turned night into morning;For Love, with sweet pity, And cheering words eaineAnd won my allegianceFrom Fortvnie and Fame. ^Ayn^.-.^y):, /^Su—.^c^-tlc/c WHEN THIS OLD GAG WAS NEW. (Concerning Any Chestnut.) Wlien this old gag was new,This time-worn monkey-man of Darwins plan Was in the plastic Edens shade the breezes played And over Adam blew,And Eve was as mild as an innocent child When this old gag was When this old gag was new, This prehistoric Priam split his sides at it; It made fair Helen and Socrates Laughed till their checks were blue,.d Sappho said, Twill kill me dead! When this old gag was new. When this old gag was new. This antediluvian bit,In Bal)ylon they saw the pun, Wliich made an awful \l(iiig tlie -Nile it reigned a while, Where Moses thrived and grew,.\ik1 Iharaoh laughed till he was daft, When this old gag was new. When this old gag was new, Which still is sprung with cheered the liand that inad(^ the stand .•\t old TherniopyUe;.(l Daniel in the lions den Let forth a yawp or David, the king, Its a beaut, by jing 1 When this old gag was new. BOOK OF THE ROYAL BLUE. TO THE HUMORISTS GREETING. Now Thev make their bow, And On these pages stand A tinii-tricd, fire-testcd liand or mofratlierian Momuses, hot-foolid to run In the race for fun. HchnUl, Nothinp; they write is ohl, Hut new, All the way throuph; IVcause if
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