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The wild horse champs the Parthenon's top frieze
Through snobbish growing round her hemline zone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
And loudly sang off-key without a tone
O Parthenon you hold the charger's strings
Rejecting ermine to become a knave
He's gone to London how the echo rings
In purest cradels tha's how they behave
The genealogist with field and fess
One tongue will do to keep the verse agog
The country lane just thrives on farmyard mess
Southern baroque's seductive dialogue
Suits lisping Spanish tongues for whom say some
The bell tolls fee-less fi-less fo-less fum


Raymond Queneau

Translation to English by Stanley Chapman
found in "Oulipo Compendium"
Atlas 1998, ISBN 0-947757-96-1

Idea and implementation by Magnus Bodin 1997
Produced in the wonderful country of Sweden.