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 Mark Twain
 **Date of Birth:** Nov. 30, 1835

 **Date** **of D****eat****h:** April 21, 1910



**Bio****grap****hy:** Samuel Langhorne Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, was one of America’s most famous literary figures. Mark Twain was born at Missouri on November 30th, 1835 and was one of the seven children in his family. At the age of 4, he moved to Mississippi. He was usually kept indoors because of his health. Right after his father died from pneumonia,he became a printer's apprentice, a newspaper editor and a printer assistant. Because of his childhood, he started to have an interest in writing. Most of his writing was based on his experiences and memories as a child.

__**Poems by Mark Twain:**__

__**//Genius//**__ Genius, like gold and precious stones,  is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

 Geniuses are people who dash of weird, wild,  incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility,  and get booming drunk and sleep in the gutter.

 Genius elevates its possessor to ineffable spheres  far above the vulgar world and fills his soul <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> with regal contempt for the gross and sordid things of earth.

<span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> It is probably on account of this <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> that people who have genius <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> do not pay their board, as a general thing.

<span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> Geniuses are very singular.

<span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> If you see a young man who has frowsy hair <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> and distraught look, and affects eccentricity in dress, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> you may set him down for a genius.

<span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> If he sings about the degeneracy of a world <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> which courts vulgar opulence <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> and neglects brains, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> he is undoubtedly a genius.

<span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> If he is too proud to accept assistance, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> and spurns it with a lordly air <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> at the very same time <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> that he knows he can't make a living to save his life, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> he is most certainly a genius.

<span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> If he hangs on and sticks to poetry, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> not withstanding sawing wood comes handier to him, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> he is a true genius.

<span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> If he throws away every opportunity in life <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> and crushes the affection and the patience of his friends <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> and then protests in sickly rhymes of his hard lot, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> and finally persists, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> in spite of the sound advice of persons who have got sense <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> but not any genius, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> persists in going up some infamous back alley <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> dying in rags and dirt, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> he is beyond all question a genius.

<span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> But above all things, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> to deftly throw the incoherent ravings of insanity into verse <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> and then rush off and get booming drunk, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> is the surest of all the different signs <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> of genius.

<span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal;"> __//**Warm Summer Sun**//__ <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -12pt;"> Warm summer sun, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -12pt;"> Shine kindly here <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -12pt;"> Warm southern wind, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -12pt;"> Blow softly here. <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -12pt;"> Green sod above, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -12pt;"> Lie light, lie light. <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -12pt;"> Good night, dear heart, <span style="color: #ff3b9d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -12pt;"> Good night, good night.