Versos English Ella Wheeler Wilcox Ralph

English poem

Ralph

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Listen in the reader

They’re thick as ripe bananas on a tree. You have not been observing, I’m afraid.

ETHEL (shrugging her shoulders)

Oh well, tastes differ; I don’t care for brown, At least for this pronounced Hawaiian shade; I really can’t imagine how a man Could love a girl dyed to a chronic tan.