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Category: Funny Banter Poems
Classic humorous and funny poems in a playful, teasing, and good-natured way. BALLAD OF THE PRIMITIVE JEST  am an ancient Jest!
Paleolithic man
In his arboreal nest
The sparks of fun would fan;
My outline did he plan,
And laughed like one possessed,
'Twas thus my course began,
I am a Merry Jest.
I am an early Jest!
Man delved and built and span;
Then wandered South and West
The peoples Aryan,
I journeyed in their van;
The Semites, too, confessed,--
From Beersheba to Dan,--
I am a Merry Jest.
I am an ancient Jest,
Through all the human clan,
Red, black, white, free, oppressed,
Hilarious I ran!
I'm found in Lucian,
In Poggio, and the rest,
I'm dear to Moll and Nan!
I am a Merry Jest!
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Prince, you may storm and ban--
Joe Millers are a pest,
Suppress me if you can!
I am a Merry Jest!
Andrew Lang.
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