LIMERICKSTEXT AND PICTURES BY OLIVER HERFORD
TEXT AND PICTURES BY OLIVER HERFORD
Limerick: The Eternal Feminine
SAIDthe spider, in tones of distress:“As a spinster I’m not a success.Though I toil and I spinAnd I work myself thin,I never can have a new dress.”
SAIDthe spider, in tones of distress:“As a spinster I’m not a success.Though I toil and I spinAnd I work myself thin,I never can have a new dress.”
SAIDthe spider, in tones of distress:“As a spinster I’m not a success.Though I toil and I spinAnd I work myself thin,I never can have a new dress.”
SAIDthe spider, in tones of distress:
“As a spinster I’m not a success.
Though I toil and I spin
And I work myself thin,
I never can have a new dress.”
Limerick: Tra-La-Larceny
AHEATHENnamed Min, passing byA pie-shop, picked up a mince-pie.If you think Min a thief,Pray dismiss the belief:The mince-pie that Min spied was Min’s pie.
AHEATHENnamed Min, passing byA pie-shop, picked up a mince-pie.If you think Min a thief,Pray dismiss the belief:The mince-pie that Min spied was Min’s pie.
AHEATHENnamed Min, passing byA pie-shop, picked up a mince-pie.If you think Min a thief,Pray dismiss the belief:The mince-pie that Min spied was Min’s pie.
AHEATHENnamed Min, passing by
A pie-shop, picked up a mince-pie.
If you think Min a thief,
Pray dismiss the belief:
The mince-pie that Min spied was Min’s pie.
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