Wednesday, September the 21st, 2011

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Crustacean Soup Verse

For when I see you, (without joking)

Your eyes, lips, breasts, are so provoking;

They set my heart more cock-a-hoop,

Than could whole seas of cray-fish soupe.

from To A Young Lady, With Some Lampreys (c.1720) by John Gay