English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. How’d You Like It?. Эллис Паркер Батлер.

Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер)

How’d You Like It?

Well, then! How’d you like to bear the name of Butler
  As an honor badge eight centuries at least,
And then have the Prohibitionists inform you
  That a butler is a sort of outlawed beast?

Ellis Parker Butler’s other poems:

1. Song for Heroes
2. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
3. The Sheep
4. Cupid Caught Napping
5. Partners

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