(@3Refrain suggested by Dr. Richard Hoffman@1) There were Three that sailed away one night Far from the madding throng And two of the three were always Right While every one else was wrong; But they took the other along, it's true, To bear them companee, For He was the only one ever knew Why the other two should Be, And so they sailed away, these three, Mencken Nathan And God. And the two they talked of the Aims of Art Which they alone understood, And they quite agreed from the very start That nothing was any good, Except some novels that Dreiser wrote And some plays from Germanee. When God protested they rocked the boat And dropped Him into the sea, "For you have no critical facultee," Said Mencken And Nathan To God. Mencken and Nathan came sailing home Over the surging tide, And trod once more on their native loam Wholly self-satisfied, And the little group that calls them great Welcomed them fawninglee, Though why the rest of us tolerate This precious pair, must be Something nobody else can see But Mencken Nathan And God. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LEFT-HANDED POEM by JAMES GALVIN HARRISON STREET COURT by CARL SANDBURG BIRCH STREAM by ANNA BOYNTON AVERILL THE PURPLE COW by FRANK GELETT BURGESS FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT; SONG by ROBERT BURNS CONSIDER by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |