A Reader

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Title:     A Reader
Author: John Kendrick Bangs [More Titles by Bangs]

DAUDET to him is e’er Dodett;
Dumas he calls Dumass;
But prithee do not you forget
He’s not at all an ass;

Because the books that he doth buy,
That on his shelf do stand,
Hold not one page his eagle eye
Hath not completely scanned.

And while this man’s orthoepy
May not be what it should,
He knows what books contain, and he
"Can quote ’em pretty good."

[The end]
John Kendrick Bangs's poem: Reader

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