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she took the porcelain in her hand she poured i drank at her command drank deep and now you understand
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like the star so bright that somethings all the night my geraldine
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you're fair as the rum ti lum ti sheen hark there is what ho
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i ploughed it with a ram's horn sing ivy sing ivy and sowed it all over with one peppercorn
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the babies are bit the moon's in a fit and the houses are built without walls
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martin said to his man fie man fie
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i see a sheep shearing corn fie man fie
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i see a man in the moon fie man fie
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i see a hare chase a hound fie man fie
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i see a goose ring a hog fie man fie
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i see a mouse catch the cat fie man fie
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there he heard a lady talking to some milk-white hens of dorking 'tis the lady jingly jones
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keep oh keep your chairs and candle and your jug without a handle i can merely be your friend
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though you're such a hoddy doddy yet i wish that i could modi fy the words i needs must say
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that is all i have to say mr yonghy-bonghy-bo
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you're the cove he said for me on your back beyond the sea turtle you shall carry me
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they called aloud our sieve ain't big but we don't care a button we don't care a fig in a sieve we'll go to sea
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and every one said who saw them go oh won't they soon be upset you know
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for the sky is dark and the voyage is long and happen what may it's extremely wrong in a sieve to sail so fast
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though the sky be dark and the voyage be long yet we never can think we were rash or wrong while round in our sieve we spin
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o timballoo how happy we are when we live in a sieve and a crockery-jar
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and all night long in the moonlight pale we sail away with a pea-green sail in the shade of the mountains brown
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and in twenty years they all came back in twenty years or more and every one said how tall they've grown
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long ago in youth he squander'd all his goods away and wander'd to the timskoop-hills afar
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who are you aged man i said and how is it you live
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so having no reply to give to what the old man said i cried come tell me how you live
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no hurry said the carpenter they thanked him much for that
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but not on us the oysters cried turning a little blue
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but answer came there none and this was scarcely odd because they'd eaten every one
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we have sailed many weeks we have sailed many days but a snark on the which we might lovingly gaze we have never beheld until now
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should you happen to venture on one it will sigh like a thing that is greatly distressed and it always looks grave at a pun
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the thing shall be done bring me paper and ink the best there is time to procure
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her father was the terror of a small italian town her mother was a foolish weak but amiable old thing but it isn't of her parents that i'm going for to sing
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and every morning passed her house that cream of gentlemen she knew she might expect him at a quarter unto ten a sorter in the custom-house it was his daily road
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for shame said father paul my erring daughter on my word this is the most distressing news that i have ever heard
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they are the most remunerative customers i know for many many years they've kept starvation from my doors i never knew so criminal a family as yours
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let the piano's martial blast rouse the echoes of the past for of agib prince of tartary i sing
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and when they put it all away he requested them to tune up and begin
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oh prince he says says he if a prince indeed you be i've a mystery i'm going to reveal
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said agib oh accursed of your kind i have heard that you are men of evil mind
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beth gave a dreadful shriek but before he'd time to speak i was mercilessly collared from behind
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on my face extended flat i was walloped with a cat for listening at the key-hole of the door
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for a week from ten to four i was fastened to the floor while a mercenary wopped me with a will
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tell me whither i may his me tell me dear one that i may know is it up the highest andes down a horrible volcano
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and he chirped and sang and skipped about and laughed with laughter hearty he was wonderfully active for so very stout a party
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found at last i madly shouted gentle pieman you astound me
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and i shouted and i danced until he'd quite a crowd around him and i rushed away exclaiming i have found him i have found him
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a glimmering thought occurs to me but i've a kind of notion we were cruelly changed at birth
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o billy we're going to kill and eat you so undo the button of your chemie
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ho reef the maintop-gallant-tree with many a running block
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and how does the sextant stand 'oh the sextant's down to the freezing point and the quadrant's lost a hand
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'they stirred their stumps they spiked the pumps they spliced the mizzen brace aloft and alow they worked but oh
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alas and alas has it come to this pass
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of course 't was a sensible thing to do for little peetookle is spared the strain of the rollicking mastodon over in spain
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poor thing you know she's growing old and hasn't any folk
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sir she exclaimed how can you try an honest moon this way
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for all your jeering speeches at duty's call i left my legs in badajos's breaches
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the gentleman then took his cane which lay by his side as he sat and he dropped in the river his wig in attempting to get out his hat
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his head being thicker than common o'er-balanced the rest of his fat and in plumped this son of a woman to follow his wig cane and hat
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o it is not for the mellow chestnut that i so far am come nor yet for puckery cherries but
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a blossom hangs the choke-cherry and eke the chestnut burr and thou a silly fowl must be
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nor in the forest go there lurks beneath his bosky tent the deadly mosquito
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the wooden-chuck is next of kin i fear not thine ill-boding din and why should i fear her
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o rarely blooms the cypripe and like a torch it shines to me adown the dark wood-walk
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the bark upon the tree thou at thy will mayst peck and bore but peck and bore not me
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full two long hours i've searched about and 't would in sooth be rum if i should now go back without
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loud flouted there that student wight solche warnynge for to hear i scorn old hen thy threats of might
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the wood-peck turned to whet her beak the student heard her drum as through the wood he went to seek
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alas the evening bell did ring and down the walk the freshmen went
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unfoalding soon a welth of perl-white teth the rais of the son soon shet his sinister ey because of their mutool splendor and warmth
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it was a well-conduckted affair no noise disturbed the harmony of the seen ecsept onct when a willow was snaped into by the roaling
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ye muses pour the pitying tear for pollio snatch'd away for had he liv'd another year
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o were he born to bless mankind in virtuous times of yore heroes themselves had fallen behind
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how sad the groves and plains appear and sympathetic sheep even pitying hills would drop a tear
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his bounty in exalted strain each bard might well display since none implor'd relief in vain
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and hark i hear the tuneful throng his obsequies forbid
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yet 't is said that his death was occasioned at last by the loss of his breath
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i can't recall his name or what he used to do but then well such is fame
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o golfer be quiet and mark where it scuds and think of its paces of owners and races relinquish the links for the study of studs
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not understood take me hence take me yonder
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or only a trifle bigger than the elves who surround the throne by mortals in dreams alone
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or why did we twain abscond all breakfastless too from the public view to prowl by a misty pond
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or her uncle i can't make out ask your governess dears or tutor
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for myself i'm in hopeless doubt as to why we were there and who on earth we were and what this is all about
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such sir are all the facts succinctly put the basis or substratum what you will of the impending eighty thousand lines
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next ask that dumpled hag stood snuffling by with her three frowsy blowsy brats o' babes the scum o' the kennel cream o' the filth-heap faugh
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boats were curtseying rising bowing and sands were a ribbon of green endowing and o the sun-dazzle on bark and bight
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the trees that grow upon the shore have grown a hundred years or more so long there is no knowing
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he loiters with the briar rose the blue-belles are his play-fellows that dance upon their slender stem
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and i have said my little will why should not he continue still a thing of nature's rearing
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a thing beyond the world's control a living vegetable soul no human sorrow fearing
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it were a blessed sight to see that child become a willow-tree his brother trees among
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three-quarter-back on the kingsclere crack was station enough for me with a fresh jackyarder blowing and the vicarage goal a-lee
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and we all kicked off from the gasworks end with a yoicks and a gone away
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when w g ran clean through his lee and beat him twice with a lob
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deuce vantage check by neck and neck we rounded into the straight
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hand over hand by the members' stand i lifted and eased her up shot clean and fair to the crossbar there and landed the jubilee cup
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the odd by a head and leg before so the judge he gave the word and the umpire shouted over but i neither spoke nor stirred
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they crowded round: for there on the ground i lay in a dead-cold swoon pitched neck and crop on the turf atop of my beautiful wooden spoon
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the auld wife sat at her ivied door a thing she had frequently done before and her spectacles lay on her aproned knees
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