Book of Humorous Verse

Excerpt: "Quixotic is his enterprise and hopeless his adventure is, who seeks for jocularities that haven''t yet been said; The world has joked incessantly for over fifty centuries, And every joke that''s possible has long ago been made. I started as a humourist with lots of mental fizziness, But humour is a drug which it''s the fashion to abuse; For my stock-in-trade, my fixtures and the good-wil...