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Now what’s the good looking like good-looking lasses Who are just as good-looking in looking-glasses, Or caring for curls that can be cultivated

When we were young, we looked on them as creatures Inalterable in nature, as in form and features; Diffidently to be approached, and shyly to be attended, Extravagantly to be admired, and valiantly to be defended.

(a Christmas card by a British playwright) A stupid horse and cow, they say, Called for convenience, ox and ass, Stood in a stable munching hay: A rather stupid sort of grass.

I cannot go it — go it you who can: The celluloid survival of a man; The play that is acted

While candles on the altar-shelf Between the ferns and flowers Were burning, and the Carmelites Chanted the Little Hours: —

There was a lady made of gold, And at an auction she was sold. She was a little lady wrought In metal molded by a thought,

When Billy, the butcher-boy’s meat-chopping instrument Chipped off the tip of his thumb, At that very moment did Lily, the pantry-maid, In for a cutlet come;