Original (English)

BALLADE OF THE PRIMITIVE JEST "What did the dark-haired Iberian laugh at before the tall blonde Aryan drove him into the corners of Europe?"—Brander Matthews I am an ancient Jest! Palaeolithic man In his arboreal nest The sparks of fun would fan; My outline did he plan, And laughed like one possessed, 'Twas thus my course began, I am a Merry Jest! I am an early Jest! Man delved, and built, and span; Then wandered South and West The peoples Aryan, I journeyed in the