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Robert Forrey

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Doggerel About Donne
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Over a half century ago, when I was an undergraduate at Wesleyan U., in Connecticut, I published the following bit of doggerel in the campus literary magazine, The Cardinal.

When Donne was young and oversexed,
He paid no heed to what came next;
But years went by and Donne went dry,
And then we heard a different cry.

I was embarrassed back then  to have published, if not written, such lines, and I am even more so  now, in repeating them here. Why, then, don't I leave bad enough alone? Perhaps George Herbert's line, my favorite, explains it: "After so many deaths, I live and write."

Robert Forrey


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