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How Would it be? |
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How would it be if we should fare,
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By whispering to the pillar-box
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A spell of which I am aware,
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To some grey mountain whence the bear
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May turn him to the West and stare
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Nor yet see known land anywhere,
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And find there carven of the rocks
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An idol that can answer prayer?
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Or winding up a palace stair,
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Beyond the hills of Let's Pretend,
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Come suddenly and unaware
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Upon a monarch seated there,
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Whose eyes were angry and whose hair
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Was frizzled there at World's End
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By the sun's triumphant glare.
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And how, indeed, how would it be
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If songs and little tales were true?
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And we should find the jujube tree,
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And galleons still should cross the sea,
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And elves should lurk by every tree,
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And dragons amble two by two,
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While nobody should cry "Dear me!"
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