Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Humorous Poems: IV. Ingenuities: OdditiesLines to Miss Florence Huntington
AnonymousS
Shall we seek for communion of souls
Where the deep Mississippi meanders,
Or the distant Saskatchewan rolls?
A sweetly sequestrated nook
Where the far winding Skoodoowabskooksis
Conjoiins with the Skoodoowabskook.
With many a winding and crook;
The one is the Skoodoowabskooksis,
The other—the Skoodoowabskook.
In geography, atlas, or book
How fair is the Skoodoowabskooksis,
When joining the Skoodoowabskook!
Within that sequestrated nook—
Reflected in Skoodoowabskooksis
And mirrored in Skoodoowabskook.
By zephyrs in wantonness shook,
And dream of the Skoodoowabskooksis,
And, perhaps, of the Skoodoowabskook.
Each morn, you shall joyously look
On the junction of Skoodoowabskooksis
With the soft gliding Skoodoowabskook.
Drawn forth on the point of a hook,
From murmuring Skoodoowabskookis,
Or wandering Skoodoowabskook!
Drawn forth from a silvery brook
Which flows to the Skoodoowabskooksis,
And then to the Skoodoowabskook!
And I will wait on thee as cook;
And we ’ll talk of the Skoodoowabskooksis,
And sing of the Skoodoowabskook!
Of Quoddy, and Tattamagouche,
Of Kennebeccasis, and Quaco,
Of Merigonishe, and Buctouche,
Or Memmerimammericook,—
There ’s none like the Skoodoowabskooksis,
Excepting the Skoodoowabskook!