Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SHORTHAND, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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SHORTHAND, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, thomas jones, young business man
Last Line: Since monday with a diamond ring.
Subject(s): Secretaries; Stenography


Ah, Thomas Jones, young business man,
It was a very foolish plan
To sit so long in business hours
With your unfledged poetic powers
Engaged in feeble, fluttering bliss,
The net resultant being -- this:

"I really do not understand
Why that dear art is called shorthand.
Her hand that darts the mystic signs
Is long, with queenly tapering lines.
Longhand I'll call it, whitehand too
(Gleaming my darksome office through),
And softhand, soft as kitten's fur,
The hand of my stenographer!
One other name is better still:
'Tis myhand, -- if she only will!"

These lines, however, will explain
Why Lucy Pratt is rather vain
Of one white finger, glittering
Since Monday with a diamond ring.





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