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So slowly you walk, and so quickly you eat.

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So that's Cleopathera's Needle, bedad..

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Some ladies now make pretty songs.

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Some poets sing of sweethearts dead.

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Speak gently to the herring and kindly to the calf.
Speak, O man less recent !.

Spontaneous Us!

Stiff are the warrior's muscles.

Strange pie that is almost a passion.

Strike the concertina's melancholy string!

Sudden swallows swiftly skimming.

Superintendent wuz Flannigan.

Suppose you screeve? or go cheap-jack?.

Swans sing before they die:-'twere no bad thing.

Sweet maiden of Passamaquoddy.

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Take a robin's leg..

That man must lead a happy life.

That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not)

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The Ballyshannon foundered off the coast of Cariboo.
The cat is in the parlour....

The Crankadox leaned o'er the edge of the moon.

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The crow-the crow! the great black crow!.

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The day was done, and darkness..

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The editor sat with his head in his hands.

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The hale John Spratt-oft called for shortness, Jack.

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The Laird o' Cockpen, he's proud and he's great.

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The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy, hairy goat..

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The man in the wilderness asked of me..

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The man who invented women's waists that button down behind

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The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea.
The Pobble who has no toes..

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The poet is, or ought to be, a hater of the city.

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The sun is in the sky, mother, the flowers are springing fair..
The sun was setting, and vespers done.
The sun was shining on the sea.

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The Thingumbob sat at eventide.

The town of Nice! the town of Nice!.

The woggly bird sat on the whango tree.

The woodchuck told it all about.

There is a river clear and fair..

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There's somewhat on my breast. father..

There was a Cameronian cat.

There was a child, as I have been told.

There be two men of all mankind.

There lived an old man in the kingdom of Tess.
There lived a sage in days of yore.

There once was a Shah had a second son.
There sat an old man on a rock.

There's a bower of bean-vines in Benjamin's yard.

There wanst was two cats at Kilkenny.

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There was a cruel darkey boy.

There was a lady liv'd at Leith.

There was a little girl.....

There was a man in Arkansaw.

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There was a negro preacher, I have heard.

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There was (not a certain when) a certain preacher.

There was once a little man, and his rod and line he took.

There were three kings into the east.

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There were three sailors of Bristol City.

There were two of us left in the berry-patch.
These are the things that make me laugh.
They called him Bill, the hired man..
They nearly strike me dumb...
They're always abusing the women.
They spoke of Progress spiring round.
They stood on the bridge at midnight.
They tell me (but I really can't....
They told hum gently he was made.

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Thine eyes, dear ones, dot dot, are like, dash, what?.

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Though I met her in the summer, when one's heart lies round

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To Urn, or not to Urn? that is the question.

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To you, my purse, and to none other wight..

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Tom's album was filled with the pictures of belles.

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Trilobite. Graphtolite. Nautilus pie..

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"True 'tis a P T, and P T 'tis, 'tis true.'

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Index of First Lines

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'Twas a pretty little maiden

'Twas after supper of Norfolk brawn.
'Twas April when she came to town...
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves.
'Twas brussels, and the loose liege.
'Twas ever thus from childhood's hour!.
'Twas gilbert. The kchesterton...

'Twas late, and the gay company was gone.
'Twas more than a million years ago.

'Twas on a lofty vase's side...

'Twas on a windy night....

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'Twas on the shores that round our coast.

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'Twas raw, and chill, and cold outside..

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'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house.. 935

'Twas whispered in heaven, 'twas muttered in hell..

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Two webfoot brothers loved a fair..

Two Yankee wags, one summer day..

Tying her bonnet under her chin.

Uncle Simon he...

Upon a rock, yet uncreate..

Upon an island, all alone...

Upon ane stormy Sunday.

Upon the poop the captain stands..

Wake! for the Hack scatter into flight.

Wal, no! I can't tell whar he lives..
Wan from the wild and woful West.
Was once a hen of wit not small..

We climbed to the top of Goat Point hill.
We love thee Ann Maria Smith..

We rode the tawny Texan hills

We seek to know, and knowing seek.

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What asks the Bard? He prays for nought.

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What, he on whom our voices unanimously ran.

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What is Earth, sexton-A place to dig graves.

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What is the matter with Grandpapa?...

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What lightning shall light it? What thunder shall tell it?.

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What poor short-sighted worms we be.
What? rise again with all one's bones.
What, what, what...

What will we do when the good days come.
Whenas to shoot my Julia goes.

When Chapman billies leave the street.
When dido found Aeneas would not come.

When good King Arthur ruled the land.

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When Mary Ann Dollinger got the skule daown thar on Injun

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When sporgles spanned the floreate mead...

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When swallows Northward flew.

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When that old joke was new..

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When the breeze from the bluebottle's blustering blim.
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock
When the landlord wants the rent.

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When the little armadillo...

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When they heard the Captain humming and beheld the dancing

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When you slice a Georgy melon you mus' know what you is at 73 Whene'er I take my walks abroad.

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While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive.
Who am I?.

Who money hast, well wages the campaign.

Who, or why, oh which, or what...

1. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour?.

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With chocolate-cream that you buy in the cake..
With due condescension, I'd call your attention.

With ganial foire..

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night.

Years-years ago-ere yet my dreams.

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"Who stuffed that white owl?" No one spoke in the shop.

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Wisely a woman prefers to a lover a man who neglects her.

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Ye may tramp the world over..

Yes, write if you want to-there's nothing like trying.
Yet another great truth I record in my verse..
You are old Father William," the young man said.
"You are old, Father William," the young man said.
You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come..
You bid me try. Blue-eyes, to write..

You have heard," said a youth to his sweetheart, who stood.. 133

"You gave me the key of your heart, my love.

You may notch it on the palin's as a mighty resky plan.

You prefer a buffoon to a scholar...

"You must give back." her mother said..

You see this pebble-stone? It's a thing I bought.

You Wi'yum, sir, dis minute. Wut dat you got.

You wrote a line too much, my sage.

Young Ben he was a nice young man..

Young Rory O'More courted Kathleen Bawn.

Your poem must eternal be...

Zack Bumstead useter flosserfize.

Zig-zagging it went.....

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Broken Pitcher, The

Rev. Joseph Cook William E. Aytoun Bunches of Grapes Walter Ramal 947 Buxom Joan, William Congreve 179 Bygones, Bert Leston Taylor 383 By Parcels Post

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