Poem by Ogden Nash

The Ant

The ant has made herself illustrious
By constant industry industrious.
So what? Would you be calm and placid
If you were full of formic acid?

1. Everybody Tells Me Everything
2. To My Valentine
3. Lines to Be Embroidered on a Bib
4. The Perfect Husband
5. A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty

Richard Lovelace The Ant ("Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant")

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