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The wild horse champs the Parthenon's top frieze
That horders of crooks felt they'd more right to own
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
With cherry-pips his cottage floor is sown
O Parthenon you hold the charger's strings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
Thou homestead hillside woodland rock and cave
When dried the terrapin can naught express
Or grinning like a pale-faced golliwog
Poor Yorick comes to bury not address
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Suits lisping Spanish tongues for whom say some
They're kings we're mammal-cousins hi ho hum


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.