A Wonderful Bird Is The Pelican
Famous Poem
A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican,
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
Dixon Lanier Merritt
About Dixon Lanier Merritt
Dixon Lanier Merritt (1879–1972) was an editor, historian, American poet and humorist.
He was a newspaper editor for the Tennessean, Nashville's morning paper, and President of the American Press Humorists Association. Merritt served as Tennessee State Director of Public Safety, taught at Cumberland University and was editor of The Tennessean and Lebanon Democrat newspapers and later contributed a column for many years called "Our Folks".
He worked for the U.S. federal government twice, around the time of both World Wars, and ultimately retired from the Rural Electrification Administration's telephone program office. In 1919, Merritt was the Assistant in Charge for the Press Service at the United States Department of Agriculture where he wrote humorous press releases.
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