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I	A
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O'er bush and briar Childe Launcelot sprung	B
With ardent hopes elate	C
And loudly blew the horn that hung	B
Before Sir Hornbook's gate	C
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The inner portals opened wide	D
And forward strode the chief	E
Arrayed in paper helmet's pride	D
And arms of golden leaf	E
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What means he cried This daring noise	F
That wakes the summer day	G
I hate all idle truant boys	F
Away Sir Childe away	G
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No idle truant boy am I	A
Childe Launcelot answered straight	C
Resolved to climb this hill so high	A
I seek thy castle gate	C
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Behold the talisman I bear	H
And aid my bold design	I
Sir Hornbook gazed and written there	H
Knew Emulation's sign	I
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If Emulation sent thee here	J
Sir Hornbook quick replied	D
My merrymen all shall soon appear	K
To aid thy cause with shield and spear	K
And I will head thy bold career	K
And prove thy faithful guide	D
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Loud rung the chains the drawbridge fell	L
The gates asunder flew	M
The knight thrice beat the portal bell	L
And thrice he call'd Halloo	L
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And out and out in hasty rout	N
By ones twos threes and fours	O
His merrymen rush'd the walls without	N
And stood before the doors	O
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II	A
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Full six and twenty men were they	G
In line of battle spread	P
The first that came was mighty A	Q
The last was little Z	R
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Six Vocal men Sir Hornbook had	S
Four Double men to boot	T
And four were Liquids soft and sad	S
And all the rest were Mute	T
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He called his Corporal Syllable	L
To range the scatter'd throng	U
And Captain Word dispos'd them well	L
In bands compact and strong	U
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Now mark Sir Childe Sir Hornbook said	P
These well compacted powers	V
Shall lead thy vent'rous steps to tread	P
Through all the Muses' bowers	V
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If rightly thou thyself address	W
To use their proffer'd aid	X
Still unallur'd by idleness	Y
By labor undismay'd	X
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For many troubles intervene	Z
And perils widely spread	X
Around the groves of evergreen	Z
That crown this mountain's head	X
But rich reward he finds I ween	Z
Who through them all has sped	X
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Childe Launcelot felt his bosom glow	L
At thought of noble deed	X
Resolved through every path to go	L
Where that bold knight should lead	X
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Sir Hornbook wound his bugle horn	Z
Full long and loud and shrill	L
His merrymen all for conquest born	Z
With armour glittering to the morn	Z
Went marching up the hill	L
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III	A
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What men are you beside the way	G
The bold Sir Hornbook cried	X
My name is The my brother's A	Q
Sir Article replied	X
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My brother's home is any where	H
At large and undefin'd	X
But I a preference ever bear	H
For one fix'd spot and settle there	H
Which speaks my constant mind	X
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What ho Childe Launcelot seize them there	H
And look you have them sure	A2
Sir Hornbook cried my men shall bear	H
Your captives off secure	A2
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The twain were seized Sir Hornbook blew	L
His bugle loud and shrill	L
His merrymen all so stout and true	L
Went marching up the hill	L
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IV	A
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And now a wider space they gained	X
A steeper harder ground	X
Where by one ample wall contained	X
All earthly things they found	X
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All beings rich poor weak or wise	B2
Were there full strange to see	R
And attributes and qualities	C2
Of high and low degree	R
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Before the circle stood a knight	X
Sir Substantive his name	D2
With Adjective his lady bright	X
Who seemed a portly dame	D2
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Yet only seemed for whenso'er	R
She strove to stand alone	Z
She proved no more than smoke and air	R
Who looked like flesh and bone	Z
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And therefore to her husband's arm	E2
She clung for evermore	R
And lent him many a grace and charm	E2
He had not known before	R
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Yet these the knight felt well advised	X
He might have done without	X
For lightly foreign help he prized	X
He was so staunch and stout	X
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Five sons had they their dear delight	X
Of different forms and faces	F2
And two of them were Numbers bright	X
And three they christened Cases	F2
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Now loudly rung Sir Hornbook's horn	Z
Childe Launcelot poised his spear	R
And on they rushed to conquest borne	Z
In swift and full career	R
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Sir Substantive kicked down the wall	L
It fell with furious rattle	L
And earthly things and beings all	L
Rushed forth to join the battle	L
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But earthly things and beings all	L
Through mixed in boundless plenty	R
Must one by one dissolving fall	L
To Hornbook's six and twenty	R
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Childe Launcelot won the arduous fray	R
And when they ceased from strife	A
Led stout Sir Substantive away	R
His children and his wife	A
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Sir Hornbook wound his horn again	Z
Full long and loud and shrill	L
His merrymen all a warlike train	Z
Went marching up the hill	L
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V	R
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Now when Sir Pronoun look'd abroad	X
And spied the coming train	Z
He left his fort beside the road	X
And ran with might and main	Z
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Two cloth yard shafts from I and U	L
Went forth with whizzing sound	X
Like lightning sped the arrows true	L
Sir Pronoun pressed the ground	X
But darts of science ever flew	L
To conquer not to wound	X
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His fear was great his hurt was small	L
Childe Launcelot took his hand	X
Sir Knight said he though doomed to fall	L
Before my conquering band	X
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Yet knightly treatment shall you find	X
On faith of cavalier	R
Then join Sir Substantive behind	X
And follow our career	R
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Sir Substantive that man of might	X
Felt knightly anger rise	B2
For he had marked Sir Pronoun's flight	X
With no approving eyes	B2
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Great Substantive my sovereign liege	G2
Thus sad Sir Pronoun cried	X
When you had fallen in furious siege	G2
Could I the shock abide	X
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That all resistance would be vain	Z
Too well alas I knew	L
For what could I when you were ta'en	Z
Your poor lieutenant do	L
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Then louder rung Sir Hornbook's horn	Z
In signals long and shrill	L
His merrymen all for conquest born	Z
Went marching up the hill	L
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VI	A
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Now steeper grew the rising ground	X
And rougher grew the road	X
As up the steep ascent they wound	X
To bold Sir Verb's abode	X
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Sir Verb was old and many a year	R
All scenes and climates seeing	H2
Had run a wild and strange career	R
Through every mode of being	H2
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And every aspect shape and change	I2
Of action and of passion	Z
And known to him was all the range	I2
Of feeling taste and fashion	Z
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He was an Augur quite at home	J2
In all things present done	Z
Deeds past and every act to come	K2
In ages yet to run	Z
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Entrenched in intricacies strong	U
Ditch fort and palisado	X
He marked with scorn the coming throng	U
And breathed a bold bravado	X
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Ho who are you that dare invade	X
My turrets moats and fences	F2
Soon will your vaunting courage fade	X
When you on the walls in lines array'd	X
You see me marshal undismay'd	X
My host of moods and tenses	F2
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In vain Childe Launcelot cried in scorn	Z
On them is your reliance	F2
Sir Hornbook wound his bugle horn	Z
And twange'd a loud defiance	F2
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They swam the moat they scal'd the wall	L
Sir Verb with rage and shame	D2
Beheld his valiant general fall	L
Infinitive by name	D2
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Indicative declar'd the foes	F2
Should perish by his hand	X
And stout Imperative arose	F2
The squadron to command	X
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Potential and Subjunctive then	Z
Came forth with doubt and chance	F2
All fell alike with all their men	Z
Before Sir Hornbook's lance	F2
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Action and Passion nought could do	X
To save Sir Verb from fate	X
Whose doom poor Participle knew	X
He must participate	X
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Then Adverb who had skulk'd behind	X
To shun the mighty jar	R
Came forward and himself resign'd	X
A prisoner of war	R
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Three children of Imperative	A
Full strong though somewhat small	L
Next forward came themselves to give	A
To conquering Launcelot's thrall	L
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Conjunction press'd to join the crowd	X
But Preposition swore	R
Though Interjection sobb'd aloud	X
That he would go before	R
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Again his horn Sir Hornbook blew	X
Full long and loud and shrill	L
His merrymen all so stout and true	X
Went marching up the hill	L
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VII	A
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Sir Syntax dwelt in thick fir grove	A
All strown with scraps of flowers	F2
Which he had pluck'd to please his love	A
Among the Muses' bowers	F2
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His love was gentle Prosody	X
More fair than morning beam	L2
Who liv'd beneath a flowering tree	X
Beside a falling stream	L2
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And these two claim'd with high pretence	F2
The whole Parnassian ground	X
Albeit some little difference	F2
Between their taste was found	X
Sir Syntax he was all for sense	F2
And Prosody for sound	X
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Yet in them both the Muses	F2