LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Songs Without Words by Robert J. Burdette. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 9, 2013.<br /><br />Robert Jones Burdette was an American humorist and clergyman who became noted through his paragraphs in the Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye. A collection of his writings, edited by Clara, his second wife, was published in 1922 under the title Robert J. Burdette: His Message.<br />This poem is taken from The Wit and Humor of America, Volume 7. (Summary from Wikipedia)
