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Title: Minnie Lee
Author: Eugene Field [
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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.
[The end]
Eugene Field's poem: Minnie Lee
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