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Very Like a Whale | ''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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Now then, this particular Assyrian, the one whose cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold, | Now then, this particular Assyrian, the one whose cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold, | ||
Just what does the poet mean when he says he came down like a wolf on the fold? | Just what does the poet mean when he says he came down like a wolf on the fold? | ||
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And after that maybe you'll begin to comprehend dimly | And after that maybe you'll begin to comprehend dimly | ||
What I mean by too much metaphor and simile. | What I mean by too much metaphor and simile. | ||
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* [[Byron: The Destruction of Sennacherib]] | * [[Byron: The Destruction of Sennacherib]] | ||
[[Category: Ogden Nash]] | [[Category: Ogden Nash]] | ||
[[Category: Literature]] | [[Category: Literature]] | ||