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To: Clive
Those with some knowledge of English literature might enjoy a series of Kipling's poems collectively titled "The Muse Among the Motors." Kipling parodied the style of major English poets, including Shakespeare, to wrote about motorcars as they were in the early 20th century. The results are hilarious.
16 posted on 11/11/2010 11:27:13 AM PST by JoeFromSidney ( New book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. More @ www.book-resistancetotyranny.com)
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To: JoeFromSidney

The full text of the Muse Among the Motors can be found here:

http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/musemotors/index.html

This one is in the style of Robert Louis Stephenson:

A Child’s Garden

NOW there is nothing wrong with me
Except—I think it’s called T.B.
And that is why I have to lay
Out in the garden all the day.
Our garden is not very wide,
And cars go by on either side,
And make an angry-hooty noise
That rather startles little boys.

But worst of all is when they take
Me out in cars that growl and shake,
With charabancs so dreadful-near
I have to shut my eyes for fear.

But when I’m on my back again,
I watch the Croydon aeroplane
That flies across to France, and sings
Like hitting thick piano-strings.

When I am strong enough to do
The things I’m truly wishful to,
I’ll never use a car or train
But always have an aeroplane;

And just go zooming round and round,
And frighten Nursey with the sound,
And see the angel-side of clouds,
And spit on all those motor-crowds!


17 posted on 11/11/2010 1:47:23 PM PST by The King of Elflands Daughter
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