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He frown'd , that little vulgar Boy – he deem'd I meant to scoff : And when the little heart is big , a little ' sets it off ' ; He put his finger in his mouth , his little bosom rose , - He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little ...
He frown'd , that little vulgar Boy – he deem'd I meant to scoff : And when the little heart is big , a little ' sets it off ' ; He put his finger in his mouth , his little bosom rose , - He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little ...
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The words that she uttered went straight through my heart , I sobbed and I sighed , and straight did depart ; With a tear on my eyelid as big as a bean , Bidding good - bye to Polly and Paddington Green . In six months she married ...
The words that she uttered went straight through my heart , I sobbed and I sighed , and straight did depart ; With a tear on my eyelid as big as a bean , Bidding good - bye to Polly and Paddington Green . In six months she married ...
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With a wreath of shrimps in her short white hair , And before the end of the next long day , Our Dell had given her heart away ; For the King of the Cranes had won that heart , With a Crocodile's egg and a large fish - tart . a She ...
With a wreath of shrimps in her short white hair , And before the end of the next long day , Our Dell had given her heart away ; For the King of the Cranes had won that heart , With a Crocodile's egg and a large fish - tart . a She ...
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| Title | A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse |
| Editor | John Michael Cohen |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Allen Lane, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0713914718, 9780713914719 |
| Length | 469 pages |
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