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Title: The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband

Author: Mary B. Little

Release Date: August 26, 2008 [EBook #26437]

Language: English

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THE RUBAIYAT OF A HUFFY HUSBAND

MARY B. LITTLE

[Illustration: ARTI et VERITATI]

BOSTON
RICHARD G. BADGER
=The Gorham Press=
1908

_Copyright, 1908, by Mary B. Little_

_All Rights Reserved_

_The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A._

THE RUBAIYAT OF A HUFFY HUSBAND

I

I wake, the Sun does scatter into Flight
The Dreams of Happiness I have each Night,
O blessed Dreams--full of Domestic Bliss,
Too soon alas! They're banished with the Light.

II

I'm going to tell in just the Briefest way
The cause of all my Anguish--if I may--
Then one and all will know the Reason why
My Mien is Solemn, and I am not Gay.

III

On Christmas day a good Friend did present
My Wife a Book; no doubt with best intent.
The "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" 'twas.
Little I dreamed the Woe of its Advent.

IV

After the rush of Holidays was o'er,
And things had settled back in Place once more,
Wife found the Time to revel in that Book,
And told me how she loved its Ancient Lore.

V

She soon possessed the dreadful Omar Fad,
Which other Husbands, I have learned, think Bad.
But unlike other Fads which now are Past,
This has the power to make me very Mad.

VI

The others whic