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At five precisely out went La Marquise
Through snobbish growing round her hemline zone
The showman gargles fire and sword with ease
That suede ferments is not at all well known
The frisian Isles my friends are cherised things
Nought can the mouse's timid nibbling stave
Th'outrageous Thames a troubled arrow slings
The nicest kids for strickiest toffees crave
The genealogist with field and fess
A bird-brain banquet melts bold Mistress Mog
To prove mamma an adult with a tress
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Do bank clerks rule their abacus by thumb
The best of all things to an end must come


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.