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Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably
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PoemLine("L0", "", "A trick that everyone abhors ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In little girls is slamming doors. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A wealthy banker's little daughter ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who lived in Palace Green, Bayswater ", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "(By name Rebecca Offendort), ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was given to this furious sport. ", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "She would deliberately go ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And slam the door like billy-o! ", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "To make her uncle Jacob start. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She was not really bad at heart, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But only rather rude and wild; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She was an aggravating child . . .", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It happened that a marble bust ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Abraham was standing just ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Above the door this little lamb ", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "And down it came! It knocked her flat! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It laid her out! She looked like that. ", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "And followed by a sacred song) ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mentioned her virtues, it is true, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But dwelt upon her vices too, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And showed the deadful end of one ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who goes and slams the door for fun. ", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "They never more would slam the door, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—As often they had done before. ", "") ?>
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