From Harper's Weekly Magazine
MT 70th Birthday Supplement: 23 December 1905

DRAWING OF CAROLYN WELLS CAROLYN WELLS said:

My poem is divided into three cantos. The first canto is as follows:

First Canto

RHYMES WRITTEN UPON THE OCCASION
OF MARK TWAIN'S PASSING HIS
SEVENTIETH SMILESTONE.

The real origin of Mr. Clemen's pseudonym of "Mark Twain."

Humor and Wit aimed their
      shafts in the dark;
With this result--
      The Twain hit the Mark.
Second Canto

GREETING TO MARK TWAIN
FROM HIS CONTEMPORARY HUMORISTS
Your humor's searchlight,
      Ours but a spark;
They call us humorists
      God save the Mark!
Third Canto

To-night our shafts of wit fly wide,
      Yet we admit it--
To-night we'd rather be beside
      The Mark than hit it!

A TOAST TO MR. CLEMENS AND COLONEL HARVEY

A Health to the Twain.       (Applause.)

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