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MINNIE LEE

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Writing from an Indiana town a young woman asks: "Is the enclosed poem worth anything?"

We find that the poem is as follows:

She has left us, our own darling —

And we never more shall see

Here on earth our dearly loved one —

God has taken Minnie Lee.


Her heart was full of goodness

And her face was fair to see

And her life was full of beauty —

How we miss our Minnie Lee!


But her work on earth is over

And her spirit now is free

She has gone to live in heaven —

Shall we weep for Minnie Lee?


Would we call our angel darling

Back again across the sea?

No! but sometime up in heaven

We will meet loved Minnie Lee.


To the question as to whether this poem is worth anything we chose to answer in verse as follows:

Sweet poetess, your poetry

Is bad as bad can be,

And yet we heartily deplore

The death of Minnie Lee.


It would have pleased us better

If, in His wisdom, He

Had taken you, sweet poetess,

Instead of Minnie Lee.


Your turn will come, however,

And swift and sure 'twill be

If you continue sending

Your rhymes on Minnie Lee.


From this we hope you will gather

A dim surmise that we

Don't take much stock in poems

Concerning Minnie Lee.


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