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... I bring my gospel of the Muse To fundamentalists , to nuns , To Gentiles and to Jews , And daily , seven days a week , Before a local sense has jelled , From talking - site to talking - site Am jet - or - prop - propelled .
... I bring my gospel of the Muse To fundamentalists , to nuns , To Gentiles and to Jews , And daily , seven days a week , Before a local sense has jelled , From talking - site to talking - site Am jet - or - prop - propelled .
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I'd have him throw away his pen ; But there's no talking to some men . ... In such a case they talk in tropes , And , by their fears express their hopes : Some great misfortune to portend , No enemy can match a friend ; With all the ...
I'd have him throw away his pen ; But there's no talking to some men . ... In such a case they talk in tropes , And , by their fears express their hopes : Some great misfortune to portend , No enemy can match a friend ; With all the ...
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If he wears a top - boot in his wooing , If he comes to you riding a cob , If he talks of his baking or brewing , If he puts up his feet on the hob , If he ever drinks port after dinner , If his brow or his breeding is low , If he calls ...
If he wears a top - boot in his wooing , If he comes to you riding a cob , If he talks of his baking or brewing , If he puts up his feet on the hob , If he ever drinks port after dinner , If his brow or his breeding is low , If he calls ...
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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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