The Project Gutenberg eBook, Rippling Rhymes, by Walt Mason

Title: Rippling Rhymes

Author: Walt Mason

Release Date: September 21, 2007 [eBook #22692]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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The Umpire

RIPPLING RHYMES

To Suit The Times
All Sorts of Themes Embracin'

Some Gay
Some Sad
Some not so Bad

AS
WRITTEN BY

Chicago
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1913

Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1913

Published October, 1913

Copyrighted in Great Britain

For permission to use copyright prose poems in this book thanks are extended to the editors and publishers of Harper's Magazine, Harper's Weekly, The Ladies' Home Journal, System, The Magazine of Business, The Popular Magazine, Collier's Weekly, The Smart Set Magazine, The American Magazine and Lippincott's Magazine.

To
GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS

Who teaches poets how to win.
And helps to make the glad world grin,
And sticks to friends through thick and thin.

ONE MOMENT, PLEASE!

Walt Mason's poetry is in a class by itself. Although having the appearance of prose the rhythm is perfect and the philosophy that runs through his lines is illumined by an irresistible humor. There is a quaintness about his style that makes his writings a continuing delight.

I began to read Walt twenty-five years ago and although he has drawn upon his intellectual store constantly for more than a quarter of a century the fountain of his genius still is flowing with undiminished volume and the waters are as pure as in the idealistic days of his youth.

I have shared the satisfaction that his increasing fame has brought him and have encouraged him to publish this collection that his readers, now numbering people of many lands, may have permanent companionship with him.

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