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    Gobolinks or Shadow Pictures for Young and Old
    Gobolinks or Shadow Pictures for Young and Old
    Gobolinks or Shadow Pictures for Young and Old
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    Gobolinks or Shadow Pictures for Young and Old

    By Albert Bigelow Paine and Ruth McEnery Stuart

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Truly bizarre collection of inkblots and poems. Available free on the Library of Congress site.

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    Gobolinks or Shadow Pictures for Young and Old - Albert Bigelow Paine

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of Gobolinks, by

    Ruth McEnery Stuart and Albert Bigelow Paine

    This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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    re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

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    Title: Gobolinks

    or Shadow Pictures for Young and Old

    Author: Ruth McEnery Stuart

    Albert Bigelow Paine

    Release Date: March 2, 2011 [EBook #35452]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GOBOLINKS ***

    Produced by Jason Isbell and the Online Distributed

    Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

    Gobolinks

    or

    Shadow-Pictures

    For Young and Old

    by Ruth McEnery Stuart And Albert Bigelow Paine

    New York

    The Century Co.

    1896

    Copyright, 1896, by The Century Co.

    DEDICATION

    TO OLD FRIENDS WITH YOUNG HEARTS AND YOUNG HEARTS GROWING OLD.

    Dear Friends of our youth, should you happen to look

    At the curious things in this curious book,

    And should you, with quizzical countenance, ask

    The how and the why of our curious task—

    We could truly reply

    To the query of why—

    To the smile on your lip, and your questioning eye,

    That the work was begun

    In a spirit of fun,

    To amuse when the work of the daylight was done;

    And continued, because we believed it would be

    Amusement to such as were weary as we

    To drift for awhile among goblins and elves,

    Or haply make shadows and rhymes for themselves.

    For though years have passed since we drifted apart,

    We're all of us more or less children at heart.

    And maybe yourselves and the youngsters 't will please

    To dwell for an hour with such creatures as these.

    Now, some one has said, in a moment of spleen,

    We cannot make pictures of what we've not seen;

    But such an assertion deserves only scorn,

    For the shape of the Gobolink never was born.

    He comes like the marvelous mimes of our dreams,

    When one has been supping on salads and creams,

    And curious changes of vision take place—

    The horse may appear with an elephant face—

    The goat with a cane,

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