Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PLEASURES OF THE POOR, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY


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PLEASURES OF THE POOR, by                    
First Line: Oh, what I like's a touring car
Last Line: The best of reasons why!
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Automobiles; Poverty; Cars


OH, what I like's a touring car,
A comfy, headache-curing car,
A wholly reassuring car
That takes you from your door,
And whirls you through proximity
To absolute sublimity,
With perfect equanimity,
A hundred miles or more;
That whisks you through the scenery,
Of wooded slope and greenery,
And drops you at a beanery
Where millionaires are fed;
Then out into the night again
To storm a fairy height again,
And revel in the flight again,
Before it's home to bed.
Oh, then, in kneeling attitude,
With many a pious platitude
I raise a prayer of gratitude
For friends more rich than I.
Such motoring! I'll say for it,
I'm ready any day for it,
Since I don't have to pay for it --
The best of reasons why!





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