O Duty (Was: "If")

FFlores wrote:

> I found this famous poem and I thought it'd be
> a nice translation project -- tho a difficult one
> probably.
Nah... I prefer the one by Ogden Nash.  shorter, a littleless didactic:


O Duty, Duty...
Why hast thou not the visage of
A sweetie or a cutie?
Why glitter thy spectacles
So ominously?
And why art thou dressed
So abominously?
Why aren't thou different from Venus?
And why do thou and I have so few interests mutually in common
Between us?

    ....  <G>

That's all I can remember!

Sally Caves
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