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True Comfort
(There is nothing quite so comforting in this life as a
word of five syllables.—Mr. W. Pett Ridge.)
Brevity! Heavens, what inefficaciousness!
Brevity! Piffle! A mere fabulosity!
Comfort is only a great ostentatiousness;
Quiet is only in vociferosity.
Brevity! Piffle! A mere fabulosity!
Comfort is only a great ostentatiousness;
Quiet is only in vociferosity.
Shortness in writing denotes adolescency,
Me for an erudite, big etymologist—
One who can tell you the true delitescency
Found in the brain of a phytopathologist.
Me for an erudite, big etymologist—
One who can tell you the true delitescency
Found in the brain of a phytopathologist.
Still, I believe that a man pharmaceutical
Seems, in a measure, to be reimbursable,
Arguing thus, it seems quite therapeutical
Voters for Taft are to be incoercible.
Seems, in a measure, to be reimbursable,
Arguing thus, it seems quite therapeutical
Voters for Taft are to be incoercible.
Which, to a mind beyond doubt algebraical,
Seems but the rankest of rank meretriciousness,
Silly and sad, not to say pharisaical;
Bless you! the thing is but old superstitiousness!
Seems but the rankest of rank meretriciousness,
Silly and sad, not to say pharisaical;
Bless you! the thing is but old superstitiousness!
Ah! How I flounder in mad inconclusiveness!
Mad is this quinquepedalian verbosity.
“Comfort?” Great heavings! What mad perdiffusiveness—
Look at me here in complete comatosity!
Mad is this quinquepedalian verbosity.
“Comfort?” Great heavings! What mad perdiffusiveness—
Look at me here in complete comatosity!