(@3Refrain suggested by Dr. Richard Hoffman@1) There were Three that sailed away one night Far from the madding throng And two of the three were always Right While every one else was wrong; But they took the other along, it's true, To bear them companee, For He was the only one ever knew Why the other two should Be, And so they sailed away, these three, Mencken Nathan And God. And the two they talked of the Aims of Art Which they alone understood, And they quite agreed from the very start That nothing was any good, Except some novels that Dreiser wrote And some plays from Germanee. When God protested they rocked the boat And dropped Him into the sea, "For you have no critical facultee," Said Mencken And Nathan To God. Mencken and Nathan came sailing home Over the surging tide, And trod once more on their native loam Wholly self-satisfied, And the little group that calls them great Welcomed them fawninglee, Though why the rest of us tolerate This precious pair, must be Something nobody else can see But Mencken Nathan And God. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE AND A QUESTION by ROBERT FROST THE AIM WAS SONG by ROBERT FROST SPARKLING AND BRIGHT by CHARLES FENNO HOFFMAN THE WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS (THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON) by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 38. THE MORROW'S MESSAGE by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI I HAVE A GARMENT by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA A MORNING PIECE; WRITTEN IN ABSENCE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |