Social Commentaries
The Baby's Baedeker: Stageland
From Verse and Worse (1905)
Social Commentaries
The customs of this land have all
Been published in a bulky tome.
The author is a man they call
Jerome K. Jerome K. Jerome.
So, lest on his preserves I poach,
This subject I refuse to broach.
MORAL
The moral here is plain to see.
If true the hackneyed witticism
Which stamps Originality
As 'undetected plagiarism,'
What a vocation I have miss'd
As undetected plagiarist!
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MLA
Graham, Harry. “The Baby's Baedeker: Stageland.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/graham_h/67/.
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Graham, Harry. “The Baby's Baedeker: Stageland.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/graham_h/67/.
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