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Unread 05-06-2008, 12:24 AM
robert mezey robert mezey is offline
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David Landrum is free to admire (perhaps a little extravagantly) the "cunts / once" rhyme in the Kennedy
epigram, but it's not original with Kennedy. It appears
in a much better epigram by Robert Frost (possibly the greatest of all rhymers):

God fell in love but once,
Though with the best excuse.
He wasn't fond of cunts--
Not half so much as Zeus.


(Quoting from memory, so maybe slightly inaccurately)


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