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I
had an Indian Fakir come
To
stay, from Uttar Pradesh,
I
was doing a friend a favour,
I
don’t, as a rule, have guests,
I co..
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Rosalyn stood in the castle tower
And
gazed out over the plain,
It
wasn’t exactly a sumptuous bower
For
the drapes were old, a..
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He
trudged on up from the great seaport
After
a year at sea,
And
in his mind was a single thought,
That
thought was Emily.
He&rsqu..
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They
said it was only climate change,
It
would take a hundred years
To
raise the temperature one degree,
It
was easy to reverse,
B..
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‘There
are giants out in the hinterland,
There
are monsters, horrible frogs,
There
are birds of prey out there all day
There
ar..
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It
started when he had brought a box
He’d
bought, back home from the fair,
The
size of an average tinder box
In
brass, and embo..
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Some
once called him a Grand Old Man,
Others
called him a slime,
You
couldn’t get a consensus that
Was
even, all the time,
F..
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His
wife was due on the midnight plane
That
was coming from Beijing,
He
got to the airport early so
He
wouldn’t miss the thing,..
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‘I
would if I could but I can’t,’ he said,
‘Though
I know it would be sublime,
I’m
spoken for, and it does ..
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It
was threatening rain for a week or more
It
was always threatening rain,
The
Weather Bureau was always sore
When
the threatening ra..
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