Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IX. Tragedy: Humor. 1904. | | | | Humorous Poems: III. Parodies: Imitations | | Lapsus Calami | | James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892) |
| | To R. K.
WILL there never come a season | |
| Which shall rid us from the curse | |
| Of a prose which knows no reason | |
| And an unmelodious verse: | |
| When the world shall cease to wonder | 5 |
| At the genius of an ass, | |
| And a boy’s eccentric blunder | |
| Shall not bring success to pass: | |
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| When mankind shall be delivered | |
| From the clash of magazines, | 10 |
| And the inkstand shall be shivered | |
| Into countless smithereens: | |
| When there stands a muzzled stripling, | |
| Mute, beside a muzzled bore: | |
| When the Rudyards cease from Kipling | 15 |
| And the Haggards ride no more? | | | | |
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