[net.books] A literary limerick

john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) (02/18/86)

A romantic young poet hight Tennyson
would never write "blessing", but "benison".
	For "mudflat" he said "mere",
	not "dried up", but "waxed sere",
and when shocked or distressed cried "O venison!"


I know, I really shouldn't have.
-- 
				Peace and Good!,
				      Fr. John Woolley
"Compared to what I have seen, all that I have written is straw." -- St. Thomas