CELEBRATION POEMS
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A Celebration
A middle-northern March, now as always-
gusts from the South broken against cold winds-
but from under, as if a slow hand lifted a tide,
it moves-not into April-into a second March,
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William Carlos Williams
A middle-northern March, now as always-
gusts from the South broken against cold winds-
but from under, as if a slow hand lifted a tide,
it moves-not into April-into a second March,
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William Carlos Williams
Sunbeam
I pray to the sunbeam from the window -
It is pale, thin, straight.
Since morning I have been silent,
And my heart - is split.
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Anna Akhmatova
I pray to the sunbeam from the window -
It is pale, thin, straight.
Since morning I have been silent,
And my heart - is split.
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Anna Akhmatova
Centennial Celebration
In the year eighteen seventy-six,
A Fourth of July celebration
Was held in Grand Rapids city
In honor to our nation.
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Julia Ann Moore
In the year eighteen seventy-six,
A Fourth of July celebration
Was held in Grand Rapids city
In honor to our nation.
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Julia Ann Moore
Metamorphoses: Book 06
Pallas, attending to the Muse's song,
Approv'd the just resentment of their wrong;
And thus reflects: While tamely I commend
Those who their injur'd deities defend,
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Ovid
Pallas, attending to the Muse's song,
Approv'd the just resentment of their wrong;
And thus reflects: While tamely I commend
Those who their injur'd deities defend,
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Ovid
Peter Quince At The Clavier
I
Just as my fingers on these keys
Make music, so the self-same sounds
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Wallace Stevens
I
Just as my fingers on these keys
Make music, so the self-same sounds
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Wallace Stevens
With Two Spoons For Two Spoons
How trifling shall these gifts appear
Among the splendid many
That loving friends now send to cheer
Harvey and Ellen Jenney.
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Eugene Field
How trifling shall these gifts appear
Among the splendid many
That loving friends now send to cheer
Harvey and Ellen Jenney.
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Eugene Field
Beethoven In Central Park
(After a glimpse of a certain monument in New York, during the
Victory Celebration)
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Alfred Noyes
(After a glimpse of a certain monument in New York, during the
Victory Celebration)
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Alfred Noyes
Growltiger's Last Stand
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge;
In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed at large.
From Gravesend up to Oxford he pursued his evil aims,
Rejoicing in his title of “The Terror of the Thames.”
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T. S. Eliot
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge;
In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed at large.
From Gravesend up to Oxford he pursued his evil aims,
Rejoicing in his title of “The Terror of the Thames.”
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T. S. Eliot
When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich
He paid a Swede twelve bits an hour
Just to invent a fancy style
To spread the celebration paint
So it would show at least a mile.
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Vachel Lindsay
He paid a Swede twelve bits an hour
Just to invent a fancy style
To spread the celebration paint
So it would show at least a mile.
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Vachel Lindsay
Ode For An Agricultural Celebration
Far back in the ages,
The plough with wreaths was crowned;
The hands of kings and sages
Entwined the chaplet round;
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William Cullen Bryant
Far back in the ages,
The plough with wreaths was crowned;
The hands of kings and sages
Entwined the chaplet round;
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William Cullen Bryant
Celebration
Brilliant, this day â?? a young virtuoso of a day.
Morning shadow cut by sharpest scissors,
deft hands. And every prodigy of green â??
whether it's ferns or lichens or needles
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Denise Levertov
Brilliant, this day â?? a young virtuoso of a day.
Morning shadow cut by sharpest scissors,
deft hands. And every prodigy of green â??
whether it's ferns or lichens or needles
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Denise Levertov
Glory!
Another milestone gained and passed,
Another 'rakkud' broken,
And this year's deaths exceed the last,
Which is a hopeful token.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Another milestone gained and passed,
Another 'rakkud' broken,
And this year's deaths exceed the last,
Which is a hopeful token.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
A Little Bird
In alien lands I keep the body
Of ancient native rites and things:
I gladly free a little birdie
At celebration of the spring.
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
In alien lands I keep the body
Of ancient native rites and things:
I gladly free a little birdie
At celebration of the spring.
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Consecrated To The Glorious Memory Of His Most Serene And Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Prote
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His
Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver,
Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc.
(Oliver Cromwell)
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John Dryden
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His
Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver,
Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc.
(Oliver Cromwell)
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John Dryden
Playfully, You Hid From Me
Playfully, you hid from me.
All day I looked.
Then I discovered
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Lalleshwari
Playfully, you hid from me.
All day I looked.
Then I discovered
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Lalleshwari
The Comedian As The Letter C: 04 - The Idea Of A Colony
Nota: his soil is man's intelligence.
That's better. That's worth crossing seas to find.
Crispin in one laconic phrase laid bare
His cloudy drift and planned a colony.
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Wallace Stevens
Nota: his soil is man's intelligence.
That's better. That's worth crossing seas to find.
Crispin in one laconic phrase laid bare
His cloudy drift and planned a colony.
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Wallace Stevens
The Legend Of The Falls (ii)
Note: An-pe-tu Sa-pa-Clouded Day-was the name of the Dakota mother who
committed suicide, as related in this legend, by plunging over the Falls
of St. Anthony. Schoolcraft calls her “Ampata Sapa.” Ampata
is not Dakota. There are several versions of this legend, all agreeing in
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Hanford Lennox Gordon
Note: An-pe-tu Sa-pa-Clouded Day-was the name of the Dakota mother who
committed suicide, as related in this legend, by plunging over the Falls
of St. Anthony. Schoolcraft calls her “Ampata Sapa.” Ampata
is not Dakota. There are several versions of this legend, all agreeing in
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Hanford Lennox Gordon
Hail, Columbia!
THE FIRST VERSE OF THE SONG
BY JOSEPH HOPKINSON
'HAIL, Columbia! Happy land!
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
THE FIRST VERSE OF THE SONG
BY JOSEPH HOPKINSON
'HAIL, Columbia! Happy land!
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
For The Burns Centennial Celebration
JANUARY 25, 1859
His birthday.--Nay, we need not speak
The name each heart is beating,--
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
JANUARY 25, 1859
His birthday.--Nay, we need not speak
The name each heart is beating,--
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Felitsa
God-like Tsarevna
Of the Kirgiz-Kaisatskii horde!
Whose wisdom matchless
Opened the true path
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Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin
God-like Tsarevna
Of the Kirgiz-Kaisatskii horde!
Whose wisdom matchless
Opened the true path
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Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin
Matter For Gratitude
Be pleased, O Lord, to take a people's thanks
That Thine avenging sword has spared our ranks-
That Thou hast parted from our lips the cup
And forced our neighbors' lips to drink it up.
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Ambrose Bierce
Be pleased, O Lord, to take a people's thanks
That Thine avenging sword has spared our ranks-
That Thou hast parted from our lips the cup
And forced our neighbors' lips to drink it up.
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Ambrose Bierce
For The Moore Centennial Celebration
I
ENCHANTER of Erin, whose magic has bound us,
Thy wand for one moment we fondly would claim,
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
I
ENCHANTER of Erin, whose magic has bound us,
Thy wand for one moment we fondly would claim,
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
An Ode In Time Of Inauguration
(March 4, 1913)
Thine aid, O Muse, I consciously beseech;
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Franklin Pierce Adams
(March 4, 1913)
Thine aid, O Muse, I consciously beseech;
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Franklin Pierce Adams
Theater
All of us - righteous and sinners,
Born in prison, raised at the altar,
All of us are funny actors
In the theater of the Creator.
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Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
All of us - righteous and sinners,
Born in prison, raised at the altar,
All of us are funny actors
In the theater of the Creator.
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Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
The Dear Old Flag
Oh! we love that dear old flag,
That our forefathers gave
Over one hundred years ago, boys,
They once stood under that dear flag,
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Julia Ann Moore
Oh! we love that dear old flag,
That our forefathers gave
Over one hundred years ago, boys,
They once stood under that dear flag,
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Julia Ann Moore
Narcissus
THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL
The mind is a city like London,
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Delmore Schwartz
THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL
The mind is a city like London,
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Delmore Schwartz
Cackle
Oh, my brothers do not wrangle.
When the sweets of office dangle
At a most inviting angle
Be polite.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Oh, my brothers do not wrangle.
When the sweets of office dangle
At a most inviting angle
Be polite.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Our Home-our Country
FOR THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE
SETTLEMENT OF CAMBRIDGE, MASS., DECEMBER 28, 1880
YOUR home was mine,--kind Nature's gift;
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
FOR THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE
SETTLEMENT OF CAMBRIDGE, MASS., DECEMBER 28, 1880
YOUR home was mine,--kind Nature's gift;
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Linden Avenue
A house of unimagined beauty
Is set in parkland, cool and dark;
Gates with an arch; then meadows, hillocks,
And oats and woods beyond the park.
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Boris Pasternak
A house of unimagined beauty
Is set in parkland, cool and dark;
Gates with an arch; then meadows, hillocks,
And oats and woods beyond the park.
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Boris Pasternak
The Queen's Jubilee Celebrations
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the 22nd of June,
Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee in London caused a great boom;
Because high and low came from afar to see,
The grand celebrations at Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee.
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William Topaz Mcgonagall
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the 22nd of June,
Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee in London caused a great boom;
Because high and low came from afar to see,
The grand celebrations at Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee.
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William Topaz Mcgonagall
Humboldt-s Birthday
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, SEPTEMBER 14, 1869
BONAPARTE, AUGUST 15, 1769.-HUMBOLDT, SEPTEMBER 14, 1769
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, SEPTEMBER 14, 1869
BONAPARTE, AUGUST 15, 1769.-HUMBOLDT, SEPTEMBER 14, 1769
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
American Academy Centennial Celebration
MAY 26, 1880
SIRE, son, and grandson; so the century glides;
Three lives, three strides, three foot-prints in the sand;
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
MAY 26, 1880
SIRE, son, and grandson; so the century glides;
Three lives, three strides, three foot-prints in the sand;
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Young In New Orleans
starving there, sitting around the bars,
and at night walking the streets for
hours,
the moonlight always seemed fake
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Charles Bukowski
starving there, sitting around the bars,
and at night walking the streets for
hours,
the moonlight always seemed fake
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Charles Bukowski
Waiting On The Mayflower
i. august 1619
arrived in a boat, named
and unnamed, twenty, pirated
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Evie Shockley
i. august 1619
arrived in a boat, named
and unnamed, twenty, pirated
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Evie Shockley
Ode For Washington-s Birthday
CELEBRATION OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION,
FEBRUARY 22, 1856
WELCOME to the day returning,
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
CELEBRATION OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION,
FEBRUARY 22, 1856
WELCOME to the day returning,
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Phaethon--attempted In Galliambic Measure
At the coming up of Phoebus the all-luminous charioteer,
Double-visaged stand the mountains in imperial multitudes,
And with shadows dappled men sing to him, Hail, O Beneficent!
For they shudder chill, the earth-vales, at his clouding, shudder to
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George Meredith
At the coming up of Phoebus the all-luminous charioteer,
Double-visaged stand the mountains in imperial multitudes,
And with shadows dappled men sing to him, Hail, O Beneficent!
For they shudder chill, the earth-vales, at his clouding, shudder to
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George Meredith
Heroic Stanzas
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His
Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver,
Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc.
Written After the Celebration of his Funeral
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John Dryden
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His
Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver,
Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc.
Written After the Celebration of his Funeral
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John Dryden
Sancho Sanchez
Sancho Sanchez lay a--dying in the house of Mariquita,
For his life ebbed with the ebbing of the red wound in his side.
And he lay there as they left him when he came from the Corrida
In his gold embroidered jacket and his red cloak and his pride.
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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Sancho Sanchez lay a--dying in the house of Mariquita,
For his life ebbed with the ebbing of the red wound in his side.
And he lay there as they left him when he came from the Corrida
In his gold embroidered jacket and his red cloak and his pride.
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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
A Celebration Of Charis: I. His Excuse For Loving
Let it not your wonder move,
Less your laughter, that I love.
Though I now write fifty years,
I have had, and have, my peers;
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Ben Jonson
Let it not your wonder move,
Less your laughter, that I love.
Though I now write fifty years,
I have had, and have, my peers;
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Ben Jonson
A Celebration Of Charis: Iv. Her Triumph
See the chariot at hand here of Love,
Wherein my lady rideth!
Each that draws is a swan or a dove,
And well the car Love guideth.
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Ben Jonson
See the chariot at hand here of Love,
Wherein my lady rideth!
Each that draws is a swan or a dove,
And well the car Love guideth.
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Ben Jonson
Hymn For The Celebration Of Emancipation At Newburyport
Not unto us who did but seek
The word that burned within to speak,
Not unto us this day belong
The triumph and exultant song.
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Not unto us who did but seek
The word that burned within to speak,
Not unto us this day belong
The triumph and exultant song.
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Ode For An Agricultural Celebration.
Far back in the ages,
The plough with wreaths was crowned;
The hands of kings and sages
Entwined the chaplet round;
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William Cullen Bryant
Far back in the ages,
The plough with wreaths was crowned;
The hands of kings and sages
Entwined the chaplet round;
.....
William Cullen Bryant
Independence Slavery
Sail from afar of my journey made.
What could be the sound my ear do hear?
This seems to be that of a glorious celebration,
Which needs no ear to be put on the wall.
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Olorode Samuel
Sail from afar of my journey made.
What could be the sound my ear do hear?
This seems to be that of a glorious celebration,
Which needs no ear to be put on the wall.
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Olorode Samuel
Discovering January To December
January opened a link called February
In February we created a website called March
Inside march we developed a game for fools called April fool
In the game the winner celebrates May day.
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Samuel Oluwandara
January opened a link called February
In February we created a website called March
Inside march we developed a game for fools called April fool
In the game the winner celebrates May day.
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Samuel Oluwandara
'50 Year Celebration'
I shall unsparingly criticise your prestigious “50 Year Celebration.”
Let me ask a few thought-provoking questions:
How did you finance such a costly event?
Did the money come from the pockets of the tax payers?
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Marlon Pitter
I shall unsparingly criticise your prestigious “50 Year Celebration.”
Let me ask a few thought-provoking questions:
How did you finance such a costly event?
Did the money come from the pockets of the tax payers?
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Marlon Pitter
I Am A Chef
I am a chef
Yes i'm a chef, for some one I am a cook
Never ending deed mine, I am recipe book.
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Sandeep Sindhwal Sandy
I am a chef
Yes i'm a chef, for some one I am a cook
Never ending deed mine, I am recipe book.
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Sandeep Sindhwal Sandy
Christmas
Some toil
Just to put on something brand
Some save
Just to put on the latest shoes
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Oluwatoyin Seun Precious
Some toil
Just to put on something brand
Some save
Just to put on the latest shoes
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Oluwatoyin Seun Precious