GRAMMAR
MUCH WAS BEING THAT MUCH WAS SEEMING SOMEHOW MORE

THE CUBIES’ ABC

VERSED BY
MARY MILLS LYALL

PICTURED BY
EARL HARVEY LYALL

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
New York and London

1913
COPYRIGHT BY
G. P. Putnam’s Sons

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

THE CUBIES’ ABC
DEDICATED by THE CUBIES
to
The ASSOCIATION of AMERICAN PAINTERS and SCULPTORS
<TO WHICH THEY OWE THEIR INCUBATION>

THE CUBIES’

A is for Art in the Cubies’ domain—

(Not the Art of the Ancients, brand-new are the Cubies.)

Archipenko’s their guide, Anatomics their bane;

They’re the joy of the mad, the despair of the sane,

(With their emerald hair and their eyes red as rubies.)

—A is for Art in the Cubies’ domain.

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B is for Beauty as Brancusi views it.

(The Cubies all vow he and Braque take the Bun.)

First you seize all that’s plain to the eye, then you lose it;

Next you search for the Soul and proceed to abuse it.

(They tell me it’s easy and no end of fun.)

—B is for Beauty as Brancusi views it.

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C is for Color Cubistic ad libitum—

(Orange and blue, yellow, purple and green.)

“Throw them all on your boards,” Cubies say, “then exhibit ’em!”

There’ll be no colors left, if we don’t