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He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time. - [Meanness] If thou wilt close thy drowsy eyes, My mulberry one, my golden son, The rose shall sing thee lullabies, My pretty cosset lambkin! - Armenian Lullaby [Sleep] The mill goes toiling slowly round With steady and solemn creak, And my little one hears in the kindly sound The voice of the old mill speak; While round and round those big white wings Grimly and ghostlike creep, My little one hears that the old mill sings, Sleep, little tulip, sleep. - Nightfall in Dordrecht [Sleep] The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away. - Our Biggest Fish [Fishing] Any color, so long as it's red, Is the color that suits me best, Though I will allow there is much to be said For yellow and green and the rest. - Red [Beauty] When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!" - The Bottle and the Bird [Eating] How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall. - The Clink of the Ice [Drinking] A little peach in an orchard grew,-- A little peach of emerald hue; Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew It grew. - The Little Peach [Peaches] All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it. - Ways of Life [Joy] Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe-- Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew. - Wynken, Blynken and Nod [Childhood]
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