Versos English Thomas Crane A Day at Versailles

English poem

A Day at Versailles

by (1631–1714)

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At Versailles, as perhaps you have heard, Countless pictures of fights Form the chief of the sights: Could so many great battles have ever occurred?

No wonder our children the gardens preferred:— For the fountains were really so pretty a sight, That Bertie declared—and I think he was right— It was better to play Like the fountains all day, Than such terrible battles to fight.