One Comfort
Grumph says: 'Away, and to the devil hence!
With all your scheming for benevolence
There’s no use inn your find inventions
All hell is paved with good intentions!”
Well, Grumph, you’ve this fact for your bragging
You’ve never helped that place to flagging.”
- Title
- One Comfort
- First Line
- Grumph says: 'Away, and to the devil hence!
- Creator
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George Shepard Burleigh
- Bibliographic Citation
- George S. Burleigh Papers, 1825-1902. John Hay Library, Brown University. Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Box 2, "Sa-So" Folder, HA1341 (coupled with another short poem, "Safe")
- Date
- 1888
- Subject
- Humor
- Moral Reform
- Theology
- Comments
- Precise date April 4, 1888
- There must have been a different meaning to the term "flagging" that would make this poem funnier than it reads.
- Media
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One Comfort