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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?



Ogden Nash


Ogden Nash's other poems:
  1. Song of the Open Road
  2. The Praying Mantis
  3. Two Dogs Have I
  4. The Perfect Husband
  5. Old Men


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

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

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