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Page 126
Effulgent is the day when bishops turn : So let not then the doctor wake the urn ! II Oh salamander , tell me why the moon Should be outrageous when the salmon march : A chuckling damsel never cleans a prune , Although ' tis true that ...
Effulgent is the day when bishops turn : So let not then the doctor wake the urn ! II Oh salamander , tell me why the moon Should be outrageous when the salmon march : A chuckling damsel never cleans a prune , Although ' tis true that ...
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We must throw out the timing That turns men into gnomes , Of piece - work and of miming That fills the mental homes . We must get rid of errors , And tallies and time checks , And all the slavish terrors That turn men into wrecks .
We must throw out the timing That turns men into gnomes , Of piece - work and of miming That fills the mental homes . We must get rid of errors , And tallies and time checks , And all the slavish terrors That turn men into wrecks .
Page 429
Lines on Thomas Warton's Poems I Wheresoe'er I turn my view , All is strange , yet nothing new ; Endless labour all along , Endless labour to be wrong ; Phrase that time has flung away , Uncouth words in disarray : Tricked in antique ...
Lines on Thomas Warton's Poems I Wheresoe'er I turn my view , All is strange , yet nothing new ; Endless labour all along , Endless labour to be wrong ; Phrase that time has flung away , Uncouth words in disarray : Tricked in antique ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Everyman Book of Light Verse |
| Editor | Robert Robinson |
| Publisher | Dent, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2007 |
| ISBN | 0460045873, 9780460045872 |
| Length | 500 pages |
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