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From: john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley)
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Subject: A literary limerick
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A romantic young poet hight Tennyson
would never write "blessing", but "benison".
	For "mudflat" he said "mere",
	not "dried up", but "waxed sere",
and when shocked or distressed cried "O venison!"


I know, I really shouldn't have.
-- 
				Peace and Good!,
				      Fr. John Woolley
"Compared to what I have seen, all that I have written is straw." -- St. Thomas