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Strawberries that in gardens grow	A
Are plump and juicy fine	B
But sweeter far as wise men know	A
Spring from the woodland vine	B
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No need for bowl or silver spoon	C
Sugar or spice or cream	D
Has the wild berry plucked in June	C
Beside the trickling stream	D
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One such to melt at the tongue's root	E
Confounding taste with scent	F
Beats a full peck of garden fruit	E
Which points my argument	G
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May sudden justice overtake	H
And snap the froward pen	I
That old and palsied poets shake	H
Against the minds of men	I
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Blasphemers trusting to hold caught	J
In far flung webs of ink	K
The utmost ends of human thought	L
Till nothing's left to think	K
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But may the gift of heavenly peace	M
And glory for all time	N
Keep the boy Tom who tending geese	M
First made the nursery rhyme	N
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By the brookside one August day	O
Using the sun for clock	P
Tom whiled the languid hours away	O
Beside his scattering flock	P
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Carving with a sharp pointed stone	Q
On a broad slab of slate	R
The famous lives of Jumping Joan	Q
Dan Fox and Greedy Kate	R
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Rhyming of wolves and bears and birds	S
Spain Scotland Babylon	T
That sister Kate might learn the words	S
To tell to Toddling John	T
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But Kate who could not stay content	F
To learn her lesson pat	U
New beauty to the rough lines lent	F
By changing this or that	U
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And she herself set fresh things down	V
In corners of her slate	R
Of lambs and lanes and London Town	V
God's blessing fall on Kate	R
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The baby loved the simple sound	W
With jolly glee he shook	X
And soon the lines grew smooth and round	W
Like pebbles in Tom's brook	X
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From mouth to mouth told and retold	W
By children sprawled at ease	Y
Before the fire in winter's cold	W
In June beneath tall trees	Y
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Till though long lost are stone and slate	W
Though the brook no more runs	Z
And dead long time are Tom John Kate	W
Their sons and their sons' sons	Z
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Yet as when Time with stealthy tread	W
Lays the rich garden waste	W
The woodland berry ripe and red	W
Fails not in scent or taste	W
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So these same rhymes shall still be told	W
To children yet unborn	A2
While false philosophy growing old	W
Fades and is killed by scorn	A2

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