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SUCH A DUCK, by                    
First Line: "once venus, deeming love too fat"
Last Line: "but then -- you're such a duck, my darling!"
Subject(s): Birds;cupid;ducks;juno (goddess);minerva;mythology - Classical;peacocks;venus (goddess); Eros;mallards;drakes


ONCE Venus, deeming Love too fat,
Stopped all his rich, ambrosial dishes,
Dooming the boy to live on chat, --
To sup on songs and dine on wishes.
Love, lean and lank, flew off to prowl, --
The starveling now no beauty boasted, --
He could have munched Minerva's owl,
Or Juno's peacock, boiled or roasted.

At last, half famished, almost dead,
He shot his mother's doves for dinner;
Young Lilla, passing, shook her head, --
Cried Love, "A shot at you, young sinner!"
"Oh, not at me!" she urged her flight --
"I'm neither dove, nor lark, nor starling!"
"No," fainting Cupid cried, "not quite;
But then -- you're such a duck, my darling!"





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