'Ode to an Expiring Frog'
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From The Pickwick Papers issue 6, ch. 15 (August 1836).
Creator
Dickens, Charles
Source
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapter 15, Number 6 (August 1836), p.148. UVic Libraries, https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/file_sets/070f8b17-ceef-4687-9ce5-e81bb81c1ac3?locale=en.
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Chapman and Hall
Date
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UVic Libraries, Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial, https://creativecommons.org/lice nses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Dickens, Charles. 'Ode to an Expiring Frog' from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Issue 6, Chapter 15 (August 1836), p. 148. Dickens Search. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. https://dickenssearch.com/verse/1836-08-Pickwick_Papers_Ode_to_an_Expiring_Frog.
Transcription
Can I view thee panting, lying
On thy stomach, without sighing?
Can I unmoved see thee dying
On a log,
Expiring frog?
Say, have fiends in shape of boys,
With wild halloo and brutal noise,
Hunted thee from marshy joys,
With a dog,
Expiring frog?
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Dickens, Charles, “'Ode to an Expiring Frog',” Dickens Search, accessed May 4, 2024, https://www.dickenssearch.com/verse/1836-08-Pickwick_Papers_Ode_to_an_Expiring_Frog.