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Poem by Ellis Parker Butler


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


Ellis Parker Butler's other poems:
  1. To G. M. W. and G. F. W.
  2. To Kate (In Lieu of a Valentine)
  3. A St. Valentine’s Day Tragedy
  4. Speaking of Operations
  5. Reasonable Interest


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