The Melancholy Crane

August 10th, 2007 - No Responses

Herford no. 13

There once was a cryptical crane,
Who wore an expression of pain
And refused to be fed
Because some one said
He resembled one Hamlet, a Dane.

[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXIV, September 1912, no. 5, p. 801.]