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The man has seen hundreds of purple cows,Īnd the cows seemed to him to be a reddish brown.Īt the second meeting of the Re-Echo Club, some of whose proceedings have already been chronicled in these pages, the question arose whether the poet was at his best who gave to the world the classic poem about The Little Girl: Though, alack-a-day, there be times enow, Now the joys of the road are chiefly these,

On that dusty bust of Dante just above my chamber door,Īnd my soul from out that pool of Purple Shadow on the floorīy the side of wan waves do you languish?

On a dusty bust of Dante perched and sat above my door. In there stepped a Purple Cow which gayly tripped around my floor.īut with mien of chorus lady perched herself above my door. Yet were I that Cow I should want to die. She strayed and strayed and strayed and strayed I've oft imagined 'twould be joy to see one. This Cow that darkles the red and the blue! Of purple tint, like to a sun-soaked grape. I watched them slowly wend their weary way,įull many a donkey writes of her, I ween,īut neither of these creatures would I be. The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, Our sweetest songs are those that tell of Purple Cows.

I'd see thee, but I would not be thee if I might. Or fill the Poet's mind, or songs arouse!Īnd though I'd like, just once, to see thee, The first attempt here cited is the production of Mr. On the occasion of the meeting of which the following gems of poesy are the result, the several members of the club engaged to write up the well-known tradition of the Purple Cow in more elaborate form than the quatrain made famous by Mr.

Little is known of the locale or clientèle of this club, but it was doubtless a successor of the famous Echo Club of Boston memory, for, like that erudite body, it takes pleasure in trying to better what is done. This is a great find, and all lovers of masterpieces of the world's best literature will rejoice with us that we are enabled to publish herewith a few of these gems of great minds. A recent discovery has brought to light the long-hidden papers of the Re-Echo Club.