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== "The Destruction of Sennacherib" by Lord Byron == | |||
''The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,'' | |||
''And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;'' | |||
''And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,'' | |||
''When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.'' | |||
* for complete poem, see [[Byron: The Destruction of Sennacherib]] | |||
== "Very Like a Whale" by Ogden Nash == | |||
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for | One thing that literature would be greatly the better for | ||
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We'll let it pass as one Assyrian for the sake of brevity. | We'll let it pass as one Assyrian for the sake of brevity. | ||
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Did he run on all fours and did he have a hairy tail and a big red mouth and big white teeth and did he say Woof Woof? | Did he run on all fours and did he have a hairy tail and a big red mouth and big white teeth and did he say Woof Woof? | ||
Frankly I think it is very unlikely, and all you were entitled to say, at the very most, | Frankly I think it is very unlikely, and all you were entitled to say, at the very most, | ||
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What I mean by too much metaphor and simile. | What I mean by too much metaphor and simile. | ||
[[Category: Ogden Nash]] | [[Category: Ogden Nash]] | ||
[[Category: Literature]] | [[Category: Literature]] | ||