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• A Fish Answers
  By James Henry Leigh Hunt

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  Excerpt: Amazing monster! that, for aught I know, With the first sight of thee didst make our race For ever stare! O flat and shocking face, Grimly divided ...
• The Pig's Tale
  By Lewis Carroll

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  Excerpt: Little Birds are dining Warily and well, Hid in mossy cell: Hid, I say, by waiters Gorgeous in their gaiters, I've a Tale to tell. Little Birds are ...
• Elegy II On the Death of the University Beadle at Cambridge.1
  By John Milton

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  Excerpt: Thee, whose refulgent staff and summons clear, Minerva's flock longtime was wont t'obey, Although thyself an herald, famous here, The last of ...
• Mariana
  By Alfred Lord Tennyson

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  Excerpt: With blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. ...
• Mariana In The South
  By Alfred Lord Tennyson

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  Excerpt: With one black shadow at its feet, The house thro' all the level shines, Close-latticed to the brooding heat, And silent in its dusty vines: A ...