Living
The Re-echo Club: as by Alfred Tennyson (Christmas)
From The Re-echo Club
Living
Give me no more! Though worsted slippers be
The proper gift from woman unto man,
Component of the universal plan;
But, oh, too many hast thou given me,
Give me no more!
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Codex Note
A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Alfred Tennyson as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Christmas).
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Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Alfred Tennyson (Christmas).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/300/.
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Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Alfred Tennyson (Christmas).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/300/.
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