Living
Verses Made for Fruit-Women: Asparagus
Living
Ripe 'sparagrass
Fit for lad or lass,
To make their water pass:
O, 'tis pretty picking
With a tender chicken!
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MLA
Swift, Jonathan. “Verses Made for Fruit-Women: Asparagus.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swift/104/.
Chicago
Swift, Jonathan. “Verses Made for Fruit-Women: Asparagus.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swift/104/.
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