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'''[[w:Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.|Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.]]''' (1857 – 1894) was an American [[humor]]ist and [[poet]] whose work published under the names '''Ben King''' or the pseudonym '''Bow Hackley''' achieved notability in his lifetime and afterwards. |
'''[[w:Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.|Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.]]''' (March 17, 1857 – 1894) was an American [[humor]]ist and [[poet]] whose work published under the names '''Ben King''' or the pseudonym '''Bow Hackley''' achieved notability in his lifetime and afterwards. |
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*If I should die to-night<br>And you should come in deepest grief and woe—<br>And say:—"Here's that ten dollars that I owe,"<br>I might arise in my large white cravat<br>And say, "What's that?" |
*If I should die to-night<br>And you should come in deepest grief and woe—<br>And say:—"Here's that ten dollars that I owe,"<br>I might arise in my large white cravat<br>And say, "What's that?" |
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**''If I should die'', reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "If I should die to-night, / My friends would look upon my quiet face / Before they laid it in its resting-place, / And deem that death had left it almost fair", Belle E. Smith. |
**''If I should die'', reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "If I should die to-night, / My friends would look upon my quiet face / Before they laid it in its resting-place, / And deem that death had left it almost fair", Belle E. Smith. |
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* Nothing to do but work,<br>Nothing to eat but food,<br>Nothing to wear but clothes<br>To keep one from going nude. |
* Nothing to do but work,<br>Nothing to eat but food,<br>Nothing to wear but clothes<br>To keep one from going nude. |
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**''The Pessimist'', reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919). |
**''The Pessimist'', reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919). |
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* Nothing to breathe but air<br/> Quick as a flash 'tis gone;<br/>Nowhere to fall but off,<br/> Nowhere to stand but on. |
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** [http://books.google.com/books?id=nfUaAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Nothing+to+breathe+but+air+Quick+as+a+flash%22+%22gone+Nowhere+to+fall+but+off+Nowhere+to+stand+but+on%22&pg=PA225#v=onepage "The Pessimist,"] first published as "The Sum of Life" in the Chicago Mail, [http://books.google.com/books?id=RCgTAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Nothing+to+breathe+but+air+Quick+as+a+flash+tis+gone+Nowhere+to+fall+but+off+Nowhere+to+stand+but+on%22&pg=PA48#v=onepage c. January 1893]. |
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*''[http://www.archive.org/details/benkingsverse00kingiala Ben King's verse]'', 1894, from the Internet Archive |
*''[http://www.archive.org/details/benkingsverse00kingiala Ben King's verse]'', 1894, from the Internet Archive |
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Latest revision as of 16:59, 24 June 2024
Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. (March 17, 1857 – 1894) was an American humorist and poet whose work published under the names Ben King or the pseudonym Bow Hackley achieved notability in his lifetime and afterwards.
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Quotes
[edit]- If I should die to-night
And you should come in deepest grief and woe—
And say:—"Here's that ten dollars that I owe,"
I might arise in my large white cravat
And say, "What's that?"- If I should die, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "If I should die to-night, / My friends would look upon my quiet face / Before they laid it in its resting-place, / And deem that death had left it almost fair", Belle E. Smith.
- Nothing to do but work,
Nothing to eat but food,
Nothing to wear but clothes
To keep one from going nude.- The Pessimist, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Nothing to breathe but air
Quick as a flash 'tis gone;
Nowhere to fall but off,
Nowhere to stand but on.- "The Pessimist," first published as "The Sum of Life" in the Chicago Mail, c. January 1893.
External links
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- Ben King's verse, 1894, from the Internet Archive