<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392931" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballade Of The Hardy Annual</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many a jest that refuses to die<br> Bobs up again as the seasons appear; <br>Deathless it hits us again in the eye-<br> Changeless and dull as the calendar year.<br> Musty and mouldy and yellow and sere,<br>Stronger, withal, than the sturdiest oak; <br> Ancient and solemn and deadly and drear-<br>Down with the grandmother-funeral joke! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soon as the snow has forgotten to fly,<br> All through the day of the 'leathery sphere,'<br>Jokelets and pictures and verses we spy<br> All on the theme of the grandmother dear.<br> Bonnets, umbrellas, and buckets of beer<br>Please us and tickle us quite to the choke.<br> But-on this matter our attitude's clear-<br>Down with the grandmother-funeral joke! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Giggle we can at a blueberry pie; <br> Scream at a comedy king or ameer; <br>Simply guffaw when the jestermen guy<br> Marriage, a thing at which no one should jeer.<br> Things that in others elicit a tear<br>All of our risibles simply unyoke; <br> But from this stand we're unwilling to veer:<br>Down with the grandmother-funeral joke! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>L'ENVOI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brothers in motley, the season is here; <br> Small is the boon that we sadly invoke:<br>Butcher it, murder it, jump on its ear! -<br> Down with the grandmother-funeral joke!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Franklin+P.+Adams">Franklin P. Adams</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392931" data-title="Ballade Of The Hardy Annual de Franklin P. Adams" data-description="Many a jest that refuses to die Bobs up again as the seasons appear; Deathless it hits us again in the eye- Changeless and dull as the calendar year. Musty and mouldy and yellow and sere, Stronger, withal, than the sturdiest oak; Ancient and..."></div> </div> </div>

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