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From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
Since Elgin left his nostrils in the stone
The understanding critic firstly sees
With cherry-pips his cottage floor is sown
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
When flame a form to wrath ancestral gave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
To break a rule Britannia's might might waive
Emboggled minds may puff and blow and guess
A piercint wit would sprightliest horses flog
On wheels the tourist follows hos hostess
Bard I adore your endless monologue
Though bretzels take the dols from board-room drum
For Europe's glory while Fate's harpies strum


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.