Living

The Re-echo Club: as by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Purple Cow)

by Carolyn Wells 1862–1942

From The Re-echo Club

Living

The Purple Cow strayed in the glade;
(Oh, my soul! but the milk is blue!)
She strayed and strayed and strayed and strayed
(And I wail and I cry Wa-hoo!)

I've never seen her--nay, not I;
(Oh, my soul! but the milk is blue!)
Yet were I that Cow I should want to die.
(And I wail and I cry Wa-hoo!)
But in vain my tears I strew.

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A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Dante Gabriel Rossetti as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Purple Cow).

MLA

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Purple Cow).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/253/.

Chicago

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Purple Cow).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/253/.

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