"I never saw a purple cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one." (From Gelett Burgess' poem The Purple Cow)
In 1895, Burgess became founding editor of The Lark, a San Francisco-based magazine devoted to humorous poetry” which, in the 1890s, meant a healthy dollop of nonsense. He contributed a steady stream of quatrains in that genre, all accompanied by his uniquely-styled cartoons, and most of which had rhyming titles. The title of his "Purple Cow" quatrain, for example, was "The Purple Cow's Projected Feast: Reflections on a Mythic Beast, Who's Quite Remarkable, at Least."
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