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Old 11-14-2004, 01:28 AM   #5
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Chesterton was moved to reply on the woman's behalf:

Why do you rush through the fields in trains,
Guessing so much and so much.
Why do you flash through the flowery meads,
Fat-head poet that nobody reads;
And why do you know such a frightful lot
About people in gloves and such?
-- Chesterton, 'The Fat White Woman Speaks'
(c. 1933); an answer to Frances Cornford.

and Housman skewered the poem rather neatly:

O why do you walk through the fields in boots,
Missing so much and so much?
O fat white woman whom nobody shoots,
Why do you walk through the fields in boots,
When the grass is soft as the breast of coots
And shivering-sweet to the touch?
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