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I thought maybe I could
go without my glasses,

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but I just can't.

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Bedtime story.

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Mrs. Hempel, who was
a beggar for her milk,

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carried a tackled beaded
glass green purse.

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The easy doorway
sniggered in her curse.

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Her cat, who rode her
shoulder, had no bulk.

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It was a paper cat.

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His wafer bone sighed as the
wind puffed in his little cage.

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The merest whiskers
dignified his age.

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Milk from her pitcher
wept upon the stone.

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His breath upon
her coarse grained

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high set cheek, provisional
as breath of the newborn.

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His tender claws
kneading the old wool

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worn to a sieve for the
wind were delicately weak.

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The pair were ribs and all.

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Two empty pots without a
fire, Mrs. Hempel and her Katz.

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I'd rather forget them.

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Kinder the dead being dead.

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It's like the babes in the
woods, where the leaves so red

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cover their dirty faces.

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And the birds whistled
as tears were shed.

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