Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Daily Dose


From Max in Verse: Rhymes and Parodies by Max Beerbohm

THOMAS HARDY AND A. E. HOUSMAN

"How compare either of this grim twain?
Each has an equal knack.
Hardy prefers the pill that's blue,
Houseman the draught that's black."

From Far Oakridge 1915 - 1919

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