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Rubáiyát of a Motor Car
Rubáiyát of a
Motor Car
By
Carolyn Wells
Author of
Idle Idyls, Folly For The Wise,
A Nonsense Anthology, &c.
With illustrations by
Frederick Strothmann
New York
Dodd, Mead Company
1906
Copyright, 1906, By The Curtis Publishing Company
Copyright, 1906, By Dodd, Mead and Company
Published, March, 1906
¶To the crank that
makes the machine go
Rubáiyát of a Motor Car
Wake! For the “Honk,” that scatters into flight
The Hens before it in a Flapping Fright,
Drives straight up to your Door, and bids you Come
Out for a Morning Hour of Sheer Delight!
Come, fill the Tank, adjust the Valve and Spring,
Your Automobile Garments 'round you Fling;
The Bird Of Time wants but to get away;
(I think that name’s a rather Clever Thing!)
And as the Corkscrew drawing out the Cork,
...