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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SIMPLE LIFE - IN TENTS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL
First Line: Ten thousand khaki tents or more
Last Line: For living proves a coarse burlesque.
Subject(s): Camping; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps
First Line: Ten thousand khaki tents or more
Last Line: For living proves a coarse burlesque.
Subject(s): Camping; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps
Ten thousand khaki tents or more,
The parks' green hillsides scattered o'er,
To the idealist might seem
Idyllic as a shepherd's dream.
As landscape gardening, they're not bad;
Worse picnic places may be had;
As summer camps a month or more
One may endure the flapping door
And drafts that sweep across the floor;
The dust and odors in the clothes
To tent flaps pinned in swinging rows;
Wall shadows cast by careless lamps
Betraying secrets to the camps:
As habitations to endure
They should be studied for a cure.
The simple life in them pursued
Proves both disquieting and crude;
That which in art is picturesque,
For living proves a coarse burlesque.
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