But AH!
(The Landscape Painter Said)

But ah! (the Landscape painter said,)
A brutal fly walks on my head
    And my bald skin doth tickle;
And so I stop distracted quite,
(With itching skin for who can write?)
In most disgusting pickle--

[from The Complete Nonsense Book,
edited by Lady Strachey, 1912, p. 426.
Etext prepared by Doug Love.]

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