Bert Leston Taylor Biography
Bert Leston Taylor (1866–1921) was an American columnist, humorist, poet, and author.
Bert Leston Taylor became a journalist at seventeen, a librettist at twenty-one, and a successfully published author at thirty-five. At the height of his literary career, he was a central literary figure of the early 20th century Chicago renaissance as well as one of the most celebrated columnists in the United States.
Behold the mighty dinosaur,
Famous in prehistoric lore,
Not only for his weight and length,
But for his intellectual strength.
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When quacks with pills political would dope us,
When politics absorbs the livelong day,
I like to think about that star Canopus,
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Across the places deep and dim,
And places brown and bare,
It reaches to the planet s rim
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In summer I’m disposed to shirk,
As summer is no time to work.
In winter inspiration dies
For lack of out-door exercise.
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