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Parody of Tennyson's
To Edward Lear
on His Travels in Greece


 

Delirious Bulldogs; -- echoing calls
My daughter, -- green as summer grass; --
The long supine Plebeian ass,
The nasty crockery boring falls; --

Tom-Moory Pathos; -- all things bare, --
With such a turket! such a hen!
And scrambling forms of distant men,
O! ain't you glad you were not there!

 
[from Later Letters of Edward Lear, 1911,
28 February 1872]

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