The Poetry Corner

Envoi

By Guy Wetmore Carryl

Now don't go and say you'd a dim Idea of these stories before, For I've frankly confessed them from Grimm, The monarch of magical lore: And if, by repeating, I took Your time, I will candidly vow This moral (the last in the book) Has never been published till now! The Moral: The skeleton's Grimm, But I have supplied the apparel, So it's fifty per cent, of it Him, And it's fifty per cent. of it Carryl. But still (from the personal severing, For it isn't my nature to grump,) I acknowledge a measure of Levering Levering-ed the whole of the lump!