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The night wind's shriek is pitiless and hollow	A
The boding bat flits by on sullen wing	B
And I sit desolate like that 'one swallow'	A
Who found with horror that he'd not brought spring	B
Lonely as he who erst with venturous thumb	C
Drew from its pie y lair the solitary plum	C
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And to my gaze the phantoms of the Past	D
The cherished fictions of my boyhood rise	E
I see Red Ridinghood observe aghast	D
The fixed expression of her grandam's eyes	E
I hear the fiendish chattering and chuckling	B
Which those misguided fowls raised at the Ugly Duckling	B
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The House that Jack built and the Malt that lay	A
Within the House the Rat that ate the Malt	F
The Cat that in that sanguinary way	A
Punished the poor thing for its venial fault	F
The Worrier Dog the Cow with Crumpled horn	G
And then ah yes and then the Maiden all forlorn	G
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O Mrs Gurton may I call thee Gammer	H
Thou more than mother to my infant mind	I
I loved thee better than I loved my grammar	H
I used to wonder why the Mice were blind	I
And who was gardener to Mistress Mary	H
And what I don't know still was meant by 'quite contrary'	H
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'Tota contraria ' an 'Arundo Cami'	C
Has phrased it which is possibly explicit	J
Ingenious certainly but all the same I	K
Still ask when coming on the word 'What is it '	-
There were more things in Mrs Gurton's eye	K
Mayhap than are dreamed of in our philosophy	H
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No doubt the Editor of 'Notes and Queries'	E
Or 'Things not generally known' could tell	A
That word's real force my only lurking fear is	E
That the great Gammer 'didna ken hersel'	A
I've precedent yet feel I owe apology	H
For passing in this way to Scottish phraseology	H
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Alas dear Madam I must ask your pardon	L
For making this unwarranted digression	L
Starting I think from Mistress Mary's garden	L
And beg to send with every expression	L
Of personal esteem a Book of Rhymes	E
For Master G to read at miscellaneous times	E
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There is a youth who keeps a 'crumpled Horn '	-
Living next me upon the selfsame story	H
And ever 'twixt the midnight and the morn	G
He solaces his soul with Annie Laurie	H
The tune is good the habit p'raps romantic	M
But tending if pursued to drive one's neighbours frantic	M
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And now at this unprecedented hour	H
When the young Dawn is 'trampling out the stars '	-
I hear that youth with more than usual power	H
And pathos struggling with the first few bars	E
And I do think the amateur cornopean	G
Should be put down by law but that's perhaps Utopian	G
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Who knows what 'things unknown' I might have 'bodied	J
Forth ' if not checked by that absurd Too too	J
But don't I know that when my friend has plodded	J
Through the first verse the second will ensue	J
Considering which dear Madam I will merely	H
Send the aforesaid book and am yours most sincerely	H

Charles Stuart Calverley

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