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Designed to show that the practice of lying is not confined to children	A
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By the late W W of H M Inland Revenue Service	B
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And is it so Can Folly stalk	C
And aim her unrespecting darts	D
In shades where grave Professors walk	C
And Bachelors of Arts	D
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I have a boy not six years old	E
A sprite of birth and lineage high	F
His birth I did myself behold	E
His caste is in his eye	F
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And oh his limbs are full of grace	G
His boyish beauty past compare	H
His mother's joy to wash his face	G
And mine to brush his hair	H
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One morn we strolled on our short walk	C
With four goloshes on our shoes	I
And held the customary talk	C
That parents love to use	J
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And oft I turn it into verse	K
And write it down upon a page	L
Which being sold supplies my purse	K
And ministers to age	L
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So as we paced the curving High	F
To view the sights of Oxford town	M
We raised our feet like Nelly Bly	F
And then we put them down	M
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'Now little Edward answer me'	N
I said and clutched him by the gown	M
'At Cambridge would you rather be	O
Or here in Oxford town '	-
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My boy replied with tiny frown	M
He'd been a year at Cavendish	P
'I'd rather dwell in Oxford town	M
If I could have my wish '	-
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'Now little Edward say why so	Q
My little Edward tell me why '	-
'Well really Pa I hardly know '	-
'Remarkable ' said I	F
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'For Cambridge has her King's Parade	R
And much the more becoming gown	M
Why should you slight her so ' I said	S
'Compared with Oxford town '	-
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At this my boy hung down his head	S
While sterner grew the parent's eye	F
And six and thirty times I said	S
'Come Edward tell me why '	-
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For I loved Cambridge where they deal	T
How strange in butter by the yard	U
And so with every third appeal	T
I hit him rather hard	U
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Twelve times I struck as may be seen	V
For three times twelve is thirty six	W
When in a shop the Magazine	V
His tearful sight did fix	W
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He saw it plain it made him smile	X
And thus to me he made reply	F
'At Oxford there's a Crocodile	X
And that's the reason why '	-
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Oh Mr Editor my heart	Y
For deeper lore would seldom yearn	Z
Could I believe the hundredth part	Y
Of what from you I learn	Z

Arthur Thomas Quiller-couch

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