Sunday, March 16, 2008

The Pied Piper

And even spoiled the women's chats,
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats
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--Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Illustration is by Kate Greenaway, from the 1888 edition of Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Public Domain

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