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Post by :mystikal
Category :Poems
Author :Oliver Herford
Date :August 2011
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Click below to download : The Sea Serpent (Format : PDF)
The Sea Serpent
O wondrous worm that won the HeightOf Fame by keeping out of sight!
Never was known on Land or Sea
Such a Colossal Modesty;
Never such arrogant pretence
Of Ostentatious Diffidence.
Celebrity whom none has seen,
Save some Post Prandial Marine,
No magazine can reproduce
Your Photograph.--Oh, what's the use
Of doing things when one may be
So Famous a Nonentity!
(The end)
Oliver Herford's poem: Sea Serpent
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