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Page 178
My dear , I don't mind where I lie ; What does it signify When not a living soul can tell me why , About to cross St James's Park I'm picked on like a sitting pheasant By , so they tell me , a demented clerk , A truant from the GPO ...
My dear , I don't mind where I lie ; What does it signify When not a living soul can tell me why , About to cross St James's Park I'm picked on like a sitting pheasant By , so they tell me , a demented clerk , A truant from the GPO ...
Page 305
... And if so be the trick worked out all right She then would sleep with Nicholas all night , For such was his desire and hers as well ; And even quicker than it takes to tell , Young Nicholas , who simply couldn't wait , Went to his ...
... And if so be the trick worked out all right She then would sleep with Nicholas all night , For such was his desire and hers as well ; And even quicker than it takes to tell , Young Nicholas , who simply couldn't wait , Went to his ...
Page 316
... they will tell their dim public it's raining if this makes a good story , for a journalist's glory is to stir up those somnolent morons who have much less idea of the art we have here than a tribe of illiterate Hurons !
... they will tell their dim public it's raining if this makes a good story , for a journalist's glory is to stir up those somnolent morons who have much less idea of the art we have here than a tribe of illiterate Hurons !
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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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