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Nine hundred thousand reptiles blue He charmed with sweet discourses , And dined on them at Killaloe In soups and second courses . Where blind - worms crawling in the grass Disgusted all the nation , He gave them a rise , which opened ...
Nine hundred thousand reptiles blue He charmed with sweet discourses , And dined on them at Killaloe In soups and second courses . Where blind - worms crawling in the grass Disgusted all the nation , He gave them a rise , which opened ...
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... The plants suck in the earth , and are , With constant drinking , fresh and fair ; The itself ( which one would think Should have but little need of drink ) , Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up , Sc filled that they o'erflow the ...
... The plants suck in the earth , and are , With constant drinking , fresh and fair ; The itself ( which one would think Should have but little need of drink ) , Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up , Sc filled that they o'erflow the ...
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As the whoreson knave men laid away A thousand years ago . Edmund Clarence Stedman ( 1833-1908 ) THE MALTWORM'S MADRIGAL I DRINK of the Ale of Southwark , I drink of the Ale of Chepe ; At noon I dream on the settle ; at night I cannot ...
As the whoreson knave men laid away A thousand years ago . Edmund Clarence Stedman ( 1833-1908 ) THE MALTWORM'S MADRIGAL I DRINK of the Ale of Southwark , I drink of the Ale of Chepe ; At noon I dream on the settle ; at night I cannot ...
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Now do you see that yard - arm- and understand the thing ? ” Said Captain Folger . “ For all from that yard - arm you shall swing , Or forty thousand dollars you shall pay me from your stere , My Captain ...
Now do you see that yard - arm- and understand the thing ? ” Said Captain Folger . “ For all from that yard - arm you shall swing , Or forty thousand dollars you shall pay me from your stere , My Captain ...
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They said it was a Microbe and a Hotbed of Disease ; They steamed it in a vapor of a thousand - odd degrees ; They froze it in a freezer that was cold as Banished Hope And washed it in permanganate with carbolated soap .
They said it was a Microbe and a Hotbed of Disease ; They steamed it in a vapor of a thousand - odd degrees ; They froze it in a freezer that was cold as Banished Hope And washed it in permanganate with carbolated soap .
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| Title | The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 2 The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Burton Egbert Stevenson |
| Author | Burton Egbert Stevenson |
| Compiled by | Burton Egbert Stevenson |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1918 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 4009 pages |
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