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PRAISE OF FAMOUS MEN: 4. THE BROTHERS GRIMM by HUMBERT WOLFE

First Line: TURN FROM THAT TO SEE THE WITCH / HIDEOUSLY BAKE
Last Line: (WHICH IT HASN'T) ENDING.
Subject(s): FAIRY TALES; GRIMM, JACOB LUDWIG CARL (1785-1863); GRIMM, WILHELM CARL (1786-1859);
TURN from that to see the witch
hideously bake,
and then build her house of rich
almond paste and cake:

nor be scared for Hans and Gretel,
since Grimm's just pretending
that the story has a fatal
(which it hasn't) ending.



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