Sunday, January 17, 2010

A Clerihew of Devoted Prolixity

AUGUSTUS JOHN CUTHBERT HARE

Though given away to a maiden aunt,
No son better proves a boy simply can't
Have a better friend than la mère,
Than Augustus John Cuthbert Hare*.


*In addition to six huge volumes of autobiography, in which his beloved adoptive parent, "The Mother," features frequently, Hare also wrote her biography, Memorials of a Quiet Life, in three volumes!

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