Excerpt from Legends in Verse: Humorous, Serious, Sarcastic, Sentimental, and Supernatural

"Good wine needs no bush, "
And a Preface wont push
A bad book into notice - a good one can't need it-
But the Publisher hints,
That whatever lie prints
Has always a Preface, though no one may read it.

So the Author complies,
As he audibly sighs,
And resignedly turns up the whites of his eyes,
In the ink his pen dives
At the task as he strives -
Needs must when unpleasant necessity drives.

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