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Title: Rippling Rhymes

Author: Walt Mason

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Language: English

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RIPPLING RHYMES

To Suit The Times
All Sorts of Themes Embracin'

Some Gay
Some Sad
Some not so Bad

AS

WRITTEN BY

(Signature of)

WALT MASON

[Frontispiece: The Umpire]

Chicago
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1913
Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1913
Published October, 1913
Copyrighted in Great Britain

For permission to use copyright prose poems in this book thanks are
extended to the editors and publishers of Harper's Magazine, Harper's
Weekly, The Ladies' Home Journal, System, The Magazine of Business, The
Popular Magazine, Collier's Weekly, The Smart Set Magazine, The
American Magazine and Lippincott's Magazine.

To

GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS

Who teaches poets how to win.
And helps to make the glad world grin,
And sticks to friends through thick and thin.

ONE MOMENT, PLEASE!

Walt Mason's poetry is in a class by itself. Although having the
appearance of prose the rhythm is perfect and the philosophy that runs
through his lines is illumined by an irresistible humor. There is a
quaintness about his style that makes his writings a continuing delight.

I began to read Walt twenty-five years ago and although he has drawn
upon his intellectual store constantly for more than a quarter of a
century the fountain of his genius still is flowing with undiminished
volume and the waters are as pure as in the idealistic days of his
youth.

I have shared the satisfaction that his increasing fame has brought him
and have encouraged him to publish this collection that his readers,