Suppose an Eyes
Suppose it is within a gate which open is open at the hour of closingsummer that is to say it is so.
All the seats are needing blackening. A white dress is in sign. Asoldier a real soldier has a worn lace a worn lace of different sizesthat is to say if he can read, if he can read he is a size to showshutting up twenty-four.
Go red go red, laugh white.
Suppose a collapse in rubbed purr, in rubbed purr get.
Little sales ladies little sales ladies little saddles of mutton.
Little sales of leather and such beautiful beautiful, beautifulbeautiful.
Words in this poem
- purr v. i.
- To murmur as a cat. See Pur.
- mutton n.
- A sheep. Chapman. [OE. motoun, OF. moton, molton, a sheep, wether, F. mouton, LL. multo, by transposition of l fr. L. mutilus mutilated. See Mutilate.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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