<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512786" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines Written After A Walk Before Supper</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tho' much averse, dear Jack, to flicker,<br>To find a likeness for friend V----ker,<br>I've made, thro' earth, and air, and sea,<br>A voyage of discovery!<br>And let me add (to ward off strife)<br>For V----kers, and for V----kers' wife--<br>She, large and round, beyond belief,<br>A superfluity of beef! <br>Her mind and body of a piece,<br>And both composed of kitchen-grease.<br>In short, dame Truth might safely dub her<br>Vulgarity enshrined in blubber!<br>He, meagre bit of littleness,<br>All snuff, and musk, and politesse; <br>So thin, that strip him of his clothing,<br>He'd totter on the edge of nothing!<br>In case of foe, he well might hide<br>Snug in the collops of her side.<br>Ah then, what simile will suit?<br>Spindle leg in great jack-boot?<br>Pismire crawling in a rut,<br>Or a spigot in a butt?<br>Thus I humm'd and ha'd awhile,<br>When Madam Memory, with a smile,<br>Thus touched my ear--'Why sure, I ween,<br>In London streets thou oft hast seen<br>The very image of this pair:<br>A little ape, with huge she bear<br>Linked by hapless chain together:<br>An unlicked mass the one -- the other<br>An antic huge with nimble crupper'--<br>But stop, my Muse! for here comes supper.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samuel+Taylor+Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512786" data-title="Lines Written After A Walk Before Supper de Samuel Taylor Coleridge" data-description="Tho' much averse, dear Jack, to flicker, To find a likeness for friend V----ker, I've made, thro' earth, and air, and sea, A voyage of discovery! And let me add (to ward off strife) For V----kers, and for V----kers' wife-- She, large and round, be..."></div> </div> </div>

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