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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WOODEN FENCE, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Poet's Biography
First Line: Now once there was a wooden fence
Last Line: To afri- or americay.
First Line: Now once there was a wooden fence
Last Line: To afri- or americay.
Now once there was a wooden fence,
with gaps to peek through, hence and thence.
An architect who looked thereon
stood there one night, the fence to con—
and took the gaps between the boards
to build a mansion fit for lords.
The fence stood stupid and dumbfounded,
its boards by naught at all surrounded,
a hideous and vulgar sight.
The senate then suppressed it quite.
The architect, though, ran away
To Afri- or Americay.
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