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MCARONI BALLADS: ARGUMENT, by                    
First Line: My title has a foreign look
Last Line: Mcaroni?
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Books; Reading


MY title has a foreign look;
The sort of Latin label
One might expect upon a book
Devoted to the table.
Yet "Macaroni" 's come to be
A word of many meanings,
(One Noah Webster, LL.D.,
Explains its Yankee leanings)
And some of these, I think, will fit
The facts and personages
My puny pipings cause to flit
Among these printed pages.

If, still, you deem my plain intent
Too delicately subtle,
I've yet another argument
To offer in rebuttal:
Since these my verses scarce may claim
Much share of fame or boodle,
But merely aim to laud the name
Of Mr. Yankee Doodle,
May I -- whose Pegasus, mayhap,
Like his, is but a pony --
Not stick a feather in my cap
And call it
MCARONI?





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