Wystan Hugh Auden - August 1968
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2014-11-07
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The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach,
The Ogre cannot master Speech:
About a subjugated plain,
Among its desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips.
Wystan Hugh Auden
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/august-1968-2/
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach,
The Ogre cannot master Speech:
About a subjugated plain,
Among its desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips.
Wystan Hugh Auden
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/august-1968-2/
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