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A. D. Hope Quotes

1907–2000 Australia

Alec Derwent Hope (July 21 1907 – July 13 2000) was an Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant. He was also a critic, teacher and academic.

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Also known as: Alec Derwent Hope

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Quaking muscles in the act of birth,
Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
And the first murderer lay upon the earth.

Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind:
He took her in his arms and there and then
Like the clean beasts, embracing from behind,
Began in joy to found the breed of men.

Darwin's daughters have no tails,
Yet a reminiscent motion
Agitates the lovely frails
At the seat of amputation.
Charles called Eve and Adam lies
And denied the garden state,
Yet the gait of Paradise
Could not wholly liquidate.

No hunter of the Age of Fable
Had need to buckle in his belt;
More game than he was ever able
To take ran wild upon the veldt;
Each night with roast he stocked his table,
Then procreated on the pelt.
And that is how, of course, there came
At last to be more men than game.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: A. D. Hope (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.