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The giant, and other nonsense verse

Chapter 1: The Giant
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A playful collection of short nonsense poems that inventively mixes cosmological, animal, and everyday scenes into absurd, child-friendly vignettes. The pieces personify giants, winds, and creatures, stage fanciful gatherings such as polar balls and tropical teas, and use rhythmic rhyme and surreal imagery to twist ordinary expectations into humorous scenarios. Themes include imaginative scale, anthropomorphism, and whimsical explanations of natural phenomena, arranged as brief lyrical poems that favor meter, sound play, and visual comedy for a young readership.

The Giant



AND



Other Nonsense Verse



BY



ALBERT W. SMITH



ANDRUS & CHURCH
ITHACA, N. Y.
1910