Green Bays. Verses and Parodies by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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Delve it one furlong fro' the kidney bean-sticks,
Where I may dream she's goin' on precisely As she was used to.' Hardly died Bill when, fro' the Lady Jane's grave, Crept to his white death-bed a lovely pumpkin: Climb'd the house wall and over-arched his head wi' Billowy verdure. Simple this tale!--but delicately perfumed As the sweet roadside honeysuckle. That's why, Difficult though its metre was to tackle, I'm glad I wrote it. A TRIOLET. To commemorate the virtue of Homoeopathy in restoring one apparently drowned. Love, that in a tear was drown'd, Lives revived by a tear. Stella heard them mourn around Love that in a tear was drown'd, Came and coax'd his dripping swound, Wept '_The fault was mine, my dear!_' Love, that in a tear was drown'd, Lives, revived by a tear. |
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