Have you ever heard the expression, "Liar, liar, pants on fire"? Of course you have. Have you also heard the next line, "Hanging on a telephone wire" (or some other similar variation)? Maybe. But have you ever read the poem the saying was derived from? It was written in 1810 by William Blake, an English poet. It's hilarious.
- Deceiver, dissembler
- Your trousers are alight
- From what pole or gallows
- Shall they dangle in the night?
- When I asked of your career
- Why did you have to kick my rear
- With that stinking lie of thine
- Proclaiming that you owned a mine?
- When you asked to borrow my stallion
- To visit a nearby moored galleon
- How could I ever know that you
- Intended to turn him into glue?
- What red devil of mendacity
- Grips your soul with such tenacity?
- Will one you cruelly shower with lies
- Put a pistol ball between your eyes?
- What internal serpent
- Has lent you his forked tongue?
- From what pit of foul deceit
- Are all these whoppers sprung?
- Deceiver, dissembler
- Your trousers are alight
- From what pole or gallows
- Do they dangle in the night?
3 comments:
haha--certainly never heard that one! That poem may have been "The Simpsons" of its day! Mom
Funny!! Good thing wives never lie to husbands!
That dude must have been really dissed by someone...
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