Living
It Often Happens a Bad Pun
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
It often happens a bad pun
Goes farther than a better one.
A miss is often not a bit
Less startling than the fairest hit:
This (under high-raised eyebrows seen)
Poor Goldsmith proved on Turnham - green .
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Landor, Walter Savage. “It Often Happens a Bad Pun.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/629/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “It Often Happens a Bad Pun.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/629/.
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