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	Category: Funny Whimsical Poems        Classic humorous and funny poems using whimsy. Humourosly quaint and fanciful, especially in an amusing way.    TO A THESAURUS     precious code, volume, tome,
     Book, writing, compilation, work
 Attend the while I pen a pome,
     A jest, a jape, a quip, a quirk.
 
 For I would pen, engross, indite,
     Transcribe, set forth, compose, address,
 Record, submit--yea, even write
     An ode, an elegy to bless--
 
 To bless, set store by, celebrate,
     Approve, esteem, endow with soul,
 Commend, acclaim, appreciate,
     Immortalize, laud, praise, extol.
 
 Thy merit, goodness, value, worth,
     Experience, utility--
 O manna, honey, salt of earth,
     I sing, I chant, I worship thee!
 
 How could I manage, live, exist,
     Obtain, produce, be real, prevail,
 Be present in the flesh, subsist,
     Have place, become, breathe or inhale.
 
 Without thy help, recruit, support,
     Opitulation, furtherance,
 Assistance, rescue, aid, resort,
     Favour, sustention and advance?
 
 Alack! Alack! and well-a-day!
     My case would then be dour and sad,
 Likewise distressing, dismal, gray,
     Pathetic, mournful, dreary, bad.
 
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 Though I could keep this up all day,
     This lyric, elegiac, song,
 Meseems hath come the time to say
     Farewell! Adieu! Good-by! So long!
 
                     Franklin P. Adams.
 
 
		
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