Thread: Insect-themed poems NOT in translation
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Unread 09-05-2014, 12:43 PM
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The verse that instantly came into my mind was Vachel Lindsay's:

The grasshopper, the grasshopper,
I will explain to you,
He is the brownie's racehorse,
The fairy's kangaroo.

Well, they can't all be gems.
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