Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Gay Gods and Merry Mortals: Some Excursions in Verse
Belike these rhymes recall to you The jingles of the poet Saxe; The poet here is Saxon, too, And so must needs relate his facts In such a way that they are clear And suited to the Saxon ear.
Some anecdotes which Homer told You'll miss in this; but reader, pray Consider, what was good of old Would never pass the mails to-day. And hence this history belated Has been - well, slightly expurgated.
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