Living
The Re-echo Club: as by Omar Khayyam (Paste-pot and Ink)
From The Re-echo Club
Living
Stay, fellow traveller, let us stop and think,
Pause and reflect on the abysmal brink;
Say would you rather thrust your pen in paste,
Or dip your paste-brush carelessly in ink?
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Codex Note
A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Omar Khayyam as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Paste-pot and Ink).
Cite this poem
MLA
Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Omar Khayyam (Paste-pot and Ink).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/284/.
Chicago
Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Omar Khayyam (Paste-pot and Ink).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/284/.
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