Living
The Re-echo Club: as by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Purple Cow)
From The Re-echo Club
Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
Cow thou never wert;
But in life to cheer it
Playest thy full part
In purple lines of unpremeditated art.
The pale purple color
Melts around thy sight
Like a star, but duller,
In the broad daylight.
I'd see thee, but I would not be thee if I might.
We look before and after
At cattle as they browse;
Our most hearty laughter
Something sad must rouse.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of Purple Cows.
Codex Note
A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Percy Bysshe Shelley as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Purple Cow).
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Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Purple Cow).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/246/.
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Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Purple Cow).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/246/.
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