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PRAISE OF FAMOUS MEN: 3. HANS ANDERSEN by HUMBERT WOLFE

First Line: THEN, WHEN YOU ARE TUCKED UP SNUGLY
Last Line: SINGING IN HER TREE.
Subject(s): ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN (1805-1875); WRITING & WRITERS;

THEN, when you are tucked up snugly,
children, call on Hans,
and the land, where all the ugly
ducklings turn to swans,

and this earth is but a pale
moonlit memory,
with the Chinese nightingale
singing in her tree.



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