On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 08:44:12 -0500 Barb Jernigan 
writes:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 07:15:43 -0400 (EDT) rveraa{at}netside.net (Fido)
> writes:
> 
> > >Mary had a little lamb
> > >extolled in verses antic
> > >Close coupled little ditty rhymes
> > >Not that iamb' so pedantic...
> > 
> > KR> Mary had a little lamb,
> > KR> She thought him okey-dokey.
> > KR> But she warned him lovingly,
> > KR> "Don't go near the trochee!"
> > 
> > KR> Veloci--bad is bad, and then it's verse--raptor
> > 
> > Marie a little lamb had she
> > She sang her song in iambs four
> > A nasty diction you'll agree
> > Unless you'd like to hear some more.
> 
> Fresh Snow upon fields
> Mary's small lamb's curly coat
> glistens in sunlight....
> 
> 

Forsooth! What snowy vision cavorts upon yon school hill?
It doth frolic and gambol very like the wind's own trifle.
'Tis Mary's lamb that comes, so innocent of right and rule;
Sweetly blind to all save its unbated joy,
Thus root and branch of Mary's deepening sorrow.
For neither fence may pen nor taut leash bind
This youngling child of ewekind's wandering.
Left no recourse, the dewitted father doth command
But one transgression more, and "'Tis the Butcher's with thee!"
Mary's bitter protests fall on ears numb to tale so oft retold.
Though glistening tears doth flood the very gates of Mercy
And heartbroke cries of woe call down hosts of angels to investigate.
This with all due passion laid before the bench of Father's dark duty;
Alack, she'll find no Pardon here.

So, methinks, might our so human soul,
Deaf to naught but its self-serving drummer,
Force the hand of steel eyed Fate
And dance so blithely to our Doom.


(pretty sad when one tries to one-up themselves -- but when the notion
comes with whim of iron....) 
clearly didn't draw a blank for this odd verse, tygress

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