Versos English Peter Newell Seventh Flat

English poem

Seventh Flat

by (1862–1924)

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Miss Mamie Briggs with no mean skill Was playing "Casey's Fling" To please her cousin, Amos Gill, Who liked that sort of thing,

When suddenly the rocket, hot, The old piano jumbled! It stopped that rag-time like a shot, Then through the ceiling rumbled.