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Mother Goose for Grown-ups

Guy Wetmore Carryl

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Mother Goose for Grown-ups | Guy Wetmore Carryl

Mother Goose for Grown-ups

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to be

Ashamed!

You quite forget yourself, it's plain,

So I'll forget you, too. Insane

Young man, I'll say oafweederzane."

(Her German might be blamed.)

But Jack, whose linguist's pride was pricked,

To shine,

Asked: "Meine Königin will nicht

Be mine?"

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And when she answered: "Nein" in spleen,

He cried: "Then in the soup tureen

You'll stay. You're not the only queen

Discarded for a nein!"

The moral's made for maidens young

And small:

If you would in a foreign tongue

Enthrall,

Lead off undaunted in a Swede

Or Spanish speech, and you'll succeed,

But they who in a German lead

No favor win at all.

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THE BLATANT BRUTALITY
OF
LITTLE BOW PEEP


Though she was only a shepherdess,

Tending the meekest of sheep,

Never was African leopardess

Crosser than Little Bow Peep:

Quite apathet

elstaffe 01/01/2024
A lot of these verses feel like they would be fun to set to music and sing, ala Gilbert and Sullivan


Pull quotes/notes
"Unflagging pertinacity, and technical sagacity,
Long nights of sleepless vigil, and long days of constant care
Had been involved in making it, improving it, and baking it,
Until of othe

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