The World’s Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia in 15 Volumes. 1906.
Carolyn Wells (18621942)The Poster Girl
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From a pinky-purple heaven;
One eye was red and one was green;
Her bang was cut uneven;
She had three fingers on her hand,
And the hairs on her head were seven.
No sunflowers did adorn;
But a heavy Turkish portière
Was very neatly worn;
And the hat that lay along her back
Was yellow like canned corn.
That she was standing on,
And high aloft she flung a scarf
That must have weighed a ton;
And she was rather tall—at least
She reached up to the sun.
Less green of speech than blue:
“Perhaps I am absurd—perhaps
I don’t appeal to you;
But my artistic worth depends
Upon the point of view.”
Were only smudgy smears;
And then she swished her swirling arms,
And wagged her gorgeous ears;
She sobbed a blue-and-green-checked sob,
And wept some purple tears.