A Choice of Comic and Curious VerseJohn Michael Cohen |
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... watch him go soggy , like a wet meringue . Watch him turn into a mess , either a fool or a bully . Just watch the display of him , confronted with a new demand on his intelligence , a new life - demand . How beastly the bourgeois is ...
... watch him go soggy , like a wet meringue . Watch him turn into a mess , either a fool or a bully . Just watch the display of him , confronted with a new demand on his intelligence , a new life - demand . How beastly the bourgeois is ...
Page 151
... watch spring , And his whiskers as big as a brush for clothing . ' 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 ...
... watch spring , And his whiskers as big as a brush for clothing . ' 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 ...
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... watch the moon ; - She has gone to the great Gromboolian plain , And we probably never shall meet again ! Oft , in the long still nights of June , - We sit on the rocks and watch the moon ; - - She dwells by the streams of the Chankly ...
... watch the moon ; - She has gone to the great Gromboolian plain , And we probably never shall meet again ! Oft , in the long still nights of June , - We sit on the rocks and watch the moon ; - - She dwells by the streams of the Chankly ...
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