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George Ade

I lived from 1866-1944. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

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  • R-E-M-O-R-S-E
    The cocktail is a pleasant drink;
    It's mild and harmless — I don't think!
    31 lines, 2 comments
  • The Microbe's Serenade
    A lovelorn microbe met by chance
    At a swagger bacteroidal dance
    34 lines
  • Wayside Ambition
    I want to be a brakeman,
    Dog gone!
    33 lines
  • Henny
    One day I went to a Saengerfest
    On the banks of the dear old Rhine.
    49 lines
  • The Stewed Samaritan
    Within a house of public entertainment
    There sat an ebon slave close at the foot
    74 lines
  • Little Moozoo-May
    The rose of June can feel no sorrow,
    It never droops or says " Ah me! "
    41 lines
  • Chicago Castanets
    Through all the moving thoroughfares
    And in the contending marts of trade;
    66 lines
  • Flutter, Little Bird
    Observe the loving mother bird,
    Up in the spreading tree,
    112 lines
  • I Am “Yours Truly”
    How often in this careless life
    A word but lightly spoken,
    27 lines
  • A Business Deal
    An ancient joker, grizzled and half-bald,
    With the outward seeming and the attire
    84 lines
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