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Amongst the sights that Mrs Bond	A
Enjoyed yet grieved at more than others	B
Were little ducklings in a pond	A
Swimming about beside their mothers	B
Small things like living water lilies	C
But yellow as the daffo dillies	C
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It's very hard she used to moan	D
That other people have their ducklings	C
To grace their waters mine alone	D
Have never any pretty chucklings	C
For why each little yellow navy	E
Went down all downy to old Davy	E
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She had a lake a pond I mean	F
Its wave was rather thick than pearly	E
She had two ducks their napes were green	F
She had a drake his tail was curly	E
Yet 'spite of drake and ducks and pond	A
No little ducks had Mrs Bond	A
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The birds were both the best of mothers	C
The nests had eggs the eggs had luck	G
The infant D's came forth like others	C
But there alas the matter stuck	G
They might as well have all died addle	H
As die when they began to paddle	H
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For when as native instinct taught her	I
The mother set her brood afloat	J
They sank ere long right under water	I
Like any overloaded boat	J
They were web footed too to see	E
As ducks and spiders ought to be	E
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No peccant humor in a gander	I
Brought havoc on her little folks	C
No poaching cook a frying pander	I
To appetite destroyed their yolks	C
Beneath her very eyes Od rot 'em	K
They went like plummets to the bottom	K
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The thing was strange a contradiction	L
It seemed of nature and her works	C
For little ducks beyond conviction	L
Should float without the help of corks	C
Great Johnson it bewildered him	M
To hear of ducks that could not swim	M
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Poor Mrs Bond what could she do	N
But change the breed and she tried divers	C
Which dived as all seemed born to do	N
No little ones were e'er survivors	C
Like those that copy gems I'm thinking	O
They all were given to die sinking	O
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In vain their downy coats were shorn	P
They floundered still Batch after batch went	Q
The little fools seemed only born	P
And hatched for nothing but a hatchment	Q
Whene'er they launched oh sight of wonder	I
Like fires the water got them under	I
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No woman ever gave their lucks	C
A better chance than Mrs Bond did	Q
At last quite out of heart and ducks	C
She gave her pond up and desponded	Q
For Death among the water lilies	C
Cried Duc ad me to all her dillies	C
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But though resolved to breed no more	R
She brooded often on this riddle	H
Alas 'twas darker than before	R
At last about the summer's middle	H
What Johnson Mrs Bond or none did	Q
To clear the matter up the Sun did	Q
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The thirsty Sirius dog like drank	S
So deep his furious tongue to cool	T
The shallow waters sank and sank	S
And lo from out the wasted pool	T
Too hot to hold them any longer	I
There crawled some eels as big as conger	I
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I wish all folks would look a bit	Q
In such a case below the surface	C
And when the eels were caught and split	Q
By Mrs Bond just think of her face	C
In each inside at once to spy	U
A duckling turned to giblet pie	U
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The sight at once explained the case	C
Making the Dame look rather silly	E
The tenants of that Eely Place	C
Had found the way to Pick a dilly	E
And so by under water suction	L
Had wrought the little ducks' abduction	L

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