"She sate upon her Dobie;
She heard the Nimmak hum;
When all at once a cry arose:
'The Cummerbund is come!'
In vain she fled: with open jaws
The angry monster followed;
And so, (before assistance came)
That Lady Fair was swallowed.
They sought in vain for even a bone
Respectfully to bury;
They said, 'Hers was a dreadful fate!'
(An echo answered 'Very!')
They nailed her Dobie to the wall
Where last her form was seen;
And underneath they wrote these words
In yellow, blue, and green:
Beware, ye Fair! Ye Fair, beware!
Nor sit out late at night,
Lest horrid Cummerbunds should come,
And swallow you outright!"
These are the dramatic concluding lines of Edward Lear's Indian nonsense poem "The Cummerbund," first published in the Times Of India in 1874.
All right, now: On the left we see (maybe) the Fair Lady, the mouth of her green head (at the top) open in terror and dismay. I've seen better heads on cabbage, but the concept of beauty is subjective.
On the right we see (maybe) the Cummerbund, with a beaked head (at the top) resembling that of a cardinal or blue jay. I am not sure that an open beak properly illustrates Lear's reference to "open jaws;" but I paid good money for my creative license, and I mean to make use of it.
The poem describes a nighttime incident; the colors here are those of a sunny summer day. This is probably an error on the part of the poet.
I can hear you say: "It's all right, but I hadn't planned on decorating the den with a picture of a lady being eaten by a monster!"
Don't worry: If you buy the picture, I will contrive some reasonable argument that it actually represents a still life with buttercups, Washington's horse or anything else that pleases you. It's really a pure abstract: The literary interpretation came after the fact.
Final note: I am not aware of any cases in which any person has actually been eaten by a cummerbund; but I went to a wedding recently, and there I saw a few that were biting down awfully hard on some beer bellies.
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Lest Horrid Cummerbunds Should Come
She heard the Nimmak hum;
When all at once a cry arose:
'The Cummerbund is come!'
In vain she fled: with open jaws
The angry monster followed;
And so, (before assistance came)
That Lady Fair was swallowed.
They sought in vain for even a bone
Respectfully to bury;
They said, 'Hers was a dreadful fate!'
(An echo answered 'Very!')
They nailed her Dobie to the wall
Where last her form was seen;
And underneath they wrote these words
In yellow, blue, and green:
Beware, ye Fair! Ye Fair, beware!
Nor sit out late at night,
Lest horrid Cummerbunds should come,
And swallow you outright!"
These are the dramatic concluding lines of Edward Lear's Indian nonsense poem "The Cummerbund," first published in the Times Of India in 1874.
All right, now: On the left we see (maybe) the Fair Lady, the mouth of her green head (at the top) open in terror and dismay. I've seen better heads on cabbage, but the concept of beauty is subjective.
On the right we see (maybe) the Cummerbund, with a beaked head (at the top) resembling that of a cardinal or blue jay. I am not sure that an open beak properly illustrates Lear's reference to "open jaws;" but I paid good money for my creative license, and I mean to make use of it.
The poem describes a nighttime incident; the colors here are those of a sunny summer day. This is probably an error on the part of the poet.
I can hear you say: "It's all right, but I hadn't planned on decorating the den with a picture of a lady being eaten by a monster!"
Don't worry: If you buy the picture, I will contrive some reasonable argument that it actually represents a still life with buttercups, Washington's horse or anything else that pleases you. It's really a pure abstract: The literary interpretation came after the fact.
Final note: I am not aware of any cases in which any person has actually been eaten by a cummerbund; but I went to a wedding recently, and there I saw a few that were biting down awfully hard on some beer bellies.
34"H x 54"W
Price: Contact Artist
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