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The poetry that doesn't require an adjective like ' light ' to warn you not to expect what you aren't going to get can also do all that light verse can do , but when it's any good carries you into a place you didn't know was there .
The poetry that doesn't require an adjective like ' light ' to warn you not to expect what you aren't going to get can also do all that light verse can do , but when it's any good carries you into a place you didn't know was there .
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And you have to go over to the corner where she is moping and try to disperse her gloom , And finally at last somebody gets up and says they have to get back to the country or back to town again , And you feebly say Oh it's early ...
And you have to go over to the corner where she is moping and try to disperse her gloom , And finally at last somebody gets up and says they have to get back to the country or back to town again , And you feebly say Oh it's early ...
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It's no go your maidenheads , it's no go your culture , All we want is a Dunlop tyre and the devil mend the puncture . The Laird o ' Phelps spent Hogmanay declaring he was sober , Counted his feet to prove the fact and found he had one ...
It's no go your maidenheads , it's no go your culture , All we want is a Dunlop tyre and the devil mend the puncture . The Laird o ' Phelps spent Hogmanay declaring he was sober , Counted his feet to prove the fact and found he had one ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Everyman Book of Light Verse |
| Editor | Robert Robinson |
| Publisher | Dent, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2007 |
| ISBN | 0460045873, 9780460045872 |
| Length | 500 pages |
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