Christian Morgenstern is one of my favorites.
fighting life's battles just like you,
tony
> The Nasobeme
>
> (trying to transmit the (non)sense of the poem into
> English language
> for the linguistically inhibited among us - lernt
> verdammt nochmal
> deutsch! Und es heisst DER Morgenstern. For more
> about declination in
> German read Morgenstern's "Der Werwolf"...)
>
> On its noses striding
> here comes the Nasobeme,
> along its child is riding,
> you can't find them in Brehm (1)
>
> The lexica are tired,
> encyclopedias fail,
> because from my own poem
> into the light they hail.
>
> Still on its noses striding,
> (as mentioned) since the theme,
> along its child is riding
> here comes the Nasobeme.
>
>
> (1) Brehms Tierleben (Brehm's Animal Life) is a
> standard German
> language textbook on beasts of all kind, with some
> 150 years
> tradition. "Meyer" and "Brockhaus" are about as
> traditional encyclopedias.
>
>
> Morgenstern was a brilliant German poet writing
> among others about
> onamopeicly named fabulous beasts, probably close in
> style to Lewis
> Carrol.
>
> Morgenstern died in 1914, some 30 years before the
> scientific report
> on the Rhinogradentia - a real visionary.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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