LIMERICKS

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.

THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK


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