The Misapprehended Goose

August 18th, 2007 - No Responses

Herford no. 23

One evening a goose, for a treat,
For the opera purchased a seat.
At the very first line
She exclaimed, “How divine!”
And for hissing was thrown in the street.

[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXV, February 1913, no. 4, p. 640.]