How Much Fortunatus Could Do With A Cap Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Fortunatus a fisherman Dane	A
Set out on a sudden for Spain	A
Because runs the story	B
He'd met with a hoary	B
Mysterious sorcerer chap	C
Who trouble to save him	D
Most thoughtfully gave him	D
A magical traveling cap	C
I barely believe that the story is true	E
But here's what that cap was reported to do	E
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Suppose you were sitting at home	F
And you wished to see Paris or Rome	F
You'd pick up that bonnet	G
You'd carefully don it	H
The name of the city you'd call	I
And the very next minute	G
By Jove you were in it	H
Without having started at all	I
One moment you sauntered on upper Broadway	J
And the next on the Corso or rue de la Paix	K
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Why it beat every journey of Cook's	K
Knocked spots out of Baedeker's books	K
He stepped from his doorway	J
Direct into Norway	J
He hopped in a trice to Ceylon	L
He saw Madagascar	M
Went round by Alaska	N
And called on a girl in Luzon	L
If they said she'd be down in a moment or two	E
He took while he waited a peek at Peru	E
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He could wake up at eight in Siam	O
Take his tub if he wanted in Guam	P
Eat breakfast in Kansas	K
And lunch in Matanzas	K
Go out for a walk in Brazil	Q
Take tea in Madeira	N
Dine on the Riviera	N
And smoke his cigar in Seville	Q
Go out to the theatre in Vladivostok	R
And retire in New York at eleven o'clock	R
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Every tongue he could readily speak	S
French German Italian Greek	S
Norwegian Bulgarian	T
Turkish Bavarian	T
Japanese Hindustanee	T
Russian and Mexican	T
He was a lexicon	T
Such as you seldom will see	K
His knowledge linguistic gave Ollendorff fits	K
And brought a hot flush to the face of Berlitz	K
	-
He would bow in an intimate way	J
To Menelik and to Loubet	H
He was frequently beckoned	H
By William the Second	H
A word of advice to receive	U
He talked with bravado	H
About the Mikado	H
King Oscar Oom Paul the Khedive	U
King Victor Emmanuel Second the Shah	V
King Edward the Seventh Kwang Su and the Czar	W
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But what did he get from it all	I
His wife used to wait in the hall	I
When this wandering mortal	X
Set foot on the portal	X
She always appeared on the scene	T
And far from ideally	K
Remarked Well I really	K
Would like to know where you have been	T
Now what is the good of a wandering life	U
If you have to tell all that you do to your wife	U
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She'd indulge in a copious cry	Y
She'd remark she'd undoubtedly die	Y
Or like many another	M
Go back to her mother	M
And what would the world think of that	H
She only grew pleasant	H
When offered a present	H
Of gloves or a gown or a hat	H
And more than his talisman saved him in fare	Z
Fortunatus expended in putting things square	Z
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And The Moral is easily said	H
Like our hero you're certain to find	H
When such a cap goes on a head	H
Retribution will follow behind	H

Guy Wetmore Carryl

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