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When one with t'other straightaway agrees
His exaltation shocked both youth and crone
He bent right down and well what did he seize
One gathers rosebuds or grows old alone
It's one of many horrid happenings
Whose ocean still-born herrings madly brave
The fertile mother changelings drops like kings
In purest cradels tha's how they behave
Staunch pilgrims longest journeys can't depress
In indian summers Englishmen drink grog
Watching manure and compost coalesce
Their sculptors did our best our hulks the clog
Though bretzels take the dols from board-room drum
And lessors' dates have all too short a sum


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.