--- Robert Kraft <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Am I expecting too much/little when I look for a reference to that
> old
> Sunday School favorite "Gladly the cross-eyed bear" in this TAN? Or
> the
> two anonymous she-bears that defended the honor of bald old Elisha in
>
> 2 Kings [=4 Kingdoms] 2.23f. Do such artistry and intertextuality
> slumber
> in medieval retreat?
>
> Poor Gladly, the cross-eyed bear
> Grew a generous profusion of hair
> And with her blind sister
> The young lads did blister
> While the abbot of Campi did stare!
> [Or, And the people of Campi did scare.]
>
> (It took hardly any time, and it shows.)
Ah, but a lifetime's experience, Maestro.
Magister Limericarum.
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