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CLASSIC POEMS,SONGS AND RIDDLES
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SPARTACUS
NAPOLEON
FOUR STAR GENERAL DANIEL,"CHAPPIE"JAMES.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN and GEORGE WASHINGTON
SACAGAWEA-BRAVE GIRL,OF THE SHOSHONE TRIBE
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND W.E.B. DU BOIS
AMERICA
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I am glad the sky is painted blue,
And the earth is painted green,
With such a lot of nice fresh air,
All sandwhiched in between

Quack,Quack,there are seven ducks at dawn,
When light dew glimmerd on the lawn,
Quack,Quack,they said its time to eat,
We'll go hunt mushrooms for a treat,
And in the light of early dawn,
I saw them chasing,on the lawn.
They fought their treat with hungry quacks,
And marked the dew with criss-cross tracks,
They ate the mushrooms one by one,
And quacked to greet the rising sun,
But in my bed,I settled back ,
And slept to the tune of quack quack quack!

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WHAT ONE MAY AND MAY NOT CALL A WOMAN
You may call a her a kitten,but you must not call her a cat.
You may call her a mouse,but you must not call her a Rat.
You may call her a chicken,but you must not call her a hen.
You may call her a duck,but you must not call her a goose.
You may call her a vision,but you must not call her a sight.

When the earth is turning Spring,
The worms are bad as anything,
And birds come flying all around,
To eat the worms right off the ground,
They like worms just as much as I,
Like bread and milk and apple pie,
And once when I was very young,
I put a worm right on my tounge,
I did'nt like the taste of it
And So I did not swallow it,
But oh it makes my mother squirm,
Because she thinks I ate that worm

A viloet by a mossy stone,
Hath hidden from the eye,
There the star,
When only one,
Is shinning in the sky.

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I wake up in the morning early,
And always the very first thing,
I poke out my head,and I sit up in bed,
And I sing and I sing ,and I sing.
la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la
I wake up in the morning early,
And always the very first thing,
I poke out my head,and I sit up in bed,
And I sing and I sing,and I sing.
la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la

THE ARROW AND THE SONG
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth,I knew not where;
For,so swiftly it flew the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth,I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long,long,afterward,in an oak
I found the arrow still unbroke;
And the song,from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW(1807-1882
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Elsie Marly has grown so fine,
She won't get up to feed the swine,
But lies in bed till eight or nine,
Lazy Elsie Marly.

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A WISE OLD OWL
A wise old owl sat on an oak,
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard;
Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
EDWARD HERSEY RICHARDS(1874-?)

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From breakfast on all through the day,
At home among my friends I stay,
But everynight I go abroad,
A for to the land of Nod,
All by myself I have to go,
With none to tell me what todo,
All alone beside the streams,
And up the moiuntain side of dreams,
The strangest things are there for me,
Things to eat and things to see,
And many frightening things abroad,
Till morning in the land of Nod.
Try as I might to find my way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can I remember plain and clear,
The curious music that I hear.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.~ Pindar