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Good children list if you're inclined	A
And wicked children too	B
This pretty ballad is designed	A
Especially for you	B
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Two ogres dwelt in Wickham Wold	C
Each TRAITS distinctive had	D
The younger was as good as gold	C
The elder was as bad	D
	-
A wicked disobedient son	E
Was JAMES M'ALPINE and	F
A contrast to the elder one	E
Good APPLEBODY BLAND	G
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M'ALPINE brutes like him are few	B
In greediness delights	H
A melancholy victim to	B
Unchastened appetites	H
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Good well bred children every day	I
He ravenously ate	J
All boys were fish who found their way	I
Into M'ALPINE'S net	K
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Boys whose good breeding is innate	J
Whose sums are always right	L
And boys who don't expostulate	L
When sent to bed at night	L
	-
And kindly boys who never search	M
The nests of birds of song	N
And serious boys for whom in church	M
No sermon is too long	N
	-
Contrast with JAMES'S greedy haste	L
And comprehensive hand	L
The nice discriminating taste	L
Of APPLEBODY BLAND	L
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BLAND only eats bad boys who swear	O
Who CAN behave but DON'T	L
Disgraceful lads who say don't care	O
And shan't and can't and won't	L
	-
Who wet their shoes and learn to box	P
And say what isn't true	B
Who bite their nails and jam their frocks	P
And make long noses too	B
	-
Who kick a nurse's aged shin	Q
And sit in sulky mopes	P
And boys who twirl poor kittens in	Q
Distracting zoetropes	P
	-
But JAMES when he was quite a youth	R
Had often been to school	S
And though so bad to tell the truth	R
He wasn't quite a fool	S
	-
At logic few with him could vie	T
To his peculiar sect	L
He could propose a fallacy	P
With singular effect	L
	-
So when his Mentors said Expound	L
Why eat good children why	T
Upon his Mentors he would round	L
With this absurd reply	T
	-
I have been taught to love the good	L
The pure the unalloyed	L
And wicked boys I've understood	L
I always should avoid	L
	-
Why do I eat good children why	T
Because I love them so	P
But this was empty sophistry	B
As your Papa can show	P
	-
Now though the learning of his friends	P
Was truly not immense	P
They had a way of fitting ends	P
By rule of common sense	P
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Away away his Mentors cried	L
Thou uncongenial pest	L
A quirk's a thing we can't abide	L
A quibble we detest	L
	-
A fallacy in your reply	T
Our intellect descries	P
Although we don't pretend to spy	T
Exactly where it lies	P
	-
In misery and penal woes	P
Must end a glutton's joys	P
And learn how ogres punish those	P
Who dare to eat good boys	P
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Secured by fetter cramp and chain	U
And gagged securely so	P
You shall be placed in Drury Lane	U
Where only good lads go	P
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Surrounded there by virtuous boys	P
You'll suffer torture wus	P
Than that which constantly annoys	P
Disgraceful TANTALUS	P
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If you would learn the woes that vex	P
Poor TANTALUS down there	B
Pray borrow of Papa an ex	P
Purgated LEMPRIERE	B
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But as for BLAND who as it seems	P
Eats only naughty boys	P
We've planned a recompense that teems	P
With gastronomic joys	P
	-
Where wicked youths in crowds are stowed	L
He shall unquestioned rule	S
And have the run of Hackney Road	L
Reformatory School	S

William Schwenck Gilbert

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