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I'll tell thee everything I can	A
There's little to relate	B
I saw an aged aged man	A
A sitting on a gate	B
Who are you aged man I said	C
And how is it you live	D
And his answer trickled through my head	C
Like water through a sieve	E
	-
He said I look for butterflies	F
That sleep among the wheat	G
I make them into mutton pies	F
And sell them in the street	G
I sell them unto men he said	C
Who sail on stormy seas	H
And that's the way I get my bread mdash	I
A trifle if you please	H
	-
But I was thinking of a plan	A
To dye one's whiskers green	J
And always use so large a fan	A
That they could not be seen	J
So having no reply to give	E
To what the old man said	C
I cried Come tell me how you live	D
And thumped him on the head	C
	-
His accents mild took up the tale	K
He said I go my ways	L
And when I find a mountain rill	M
I set it in a blaze	L
And thence they make a stuff they call	N
Rowland's Macassar Oil mdash	I
Yet twopence halfpenny is all	N
They give me for my toil	O
	-
But I was thinking of a way	P
To feed oneself on batter	Q
And so go on from day to day	P
Getting a little fatter	Q
I shook him well from side to side	R
Until his face was blue	S
Come tell me how you live I cried	R
And what it is you do	S
	-
He said I hunt for haddocks' eyes	F
Among the heather bright	T
And work them into waistcoat buttons	U
In the silent night	T
And these I do not sell for gold	V
Or coin of silvery shine	W
But for a copper halfpenny	W
And that will purchase nine	W
	-
I sometimes dig for buttered rolls	X
Or set limed twigs for crabs	Y
I sometimes search the grassy knolls	Y
For wheels of hansom cabs	Y
And that's the way he gave a wink	Z
By which I get my wealth mdash	I
And very gladly will I drink	Z
Your Honour's noble health	A2
	-
I heard him then for I had just	B2
Completed my design	W
To keep the Menai bridge from rust	B2
By boiling it in wine	W
I thanked him much for telling me	C2
The way he got his wealth	A2
But chiefly for his wish that he	C2
Might drink my noble health	A2
	-
And now if e'er by chance I put	D2
My fingers into glue	S
Or madly squeeze a right hand foot	D2
Into a left hand shoe	S
Or if I drop upon my toe	E2
A very heavy weight	B
I weep for it reminds me so	E2
Of that old man I used to know mdash	S
Whose look was mild whose speech was slow	E2
Whose hair was whiter than the snow	E2
Whose face was very like a crow	E2
With eyes like cinders all aglow	E2
Who seemed distracted with his woe	E2
Who rocked his body to and fro	E2
And muttered mumblingly and low	E2
As if his mouth were full of dough	E2
Who snorted like a buffalo mdash	S
That summer evening long ago	E2
A sitting on a gate	B

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