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Image from page 72 of “Poetical works..” (1906)
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Title: Poetical works..
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
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s so. Now, when the stethoscope came out,The flies began to buzz and whiz ; — 0 ho ! the matter is clear, no doubt;An aneurism there plainly is. The bruit de rape and the bruit de scieAnd the bruit de diable are all com-bined ; How happy Bouillaud would be,If he a case like this could find ! Now, when the neighboring doctorsfound A case so rare had been descried,They every day her ribs did pound In squads of twenty ; so she died. Then six young damsels, slight and frail,Eeceived this kind young doctorscares ;They all were getting slim and pale,And short of breath on mountingstairs. They all made rhymes with sighs and skies,And loathed their puddings and but-tered rolls,And dieted, much to their friends sur-prise,On pickles and pencils and chalk andcoals. So fast their little hearts did bound,The frightened insects buzzed themore ; So over all their chests he foundThe rale sifflant, and the rale sonore. He shook his head ; — there s gravedisease, —I greatly fear you all must die;
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EXTRACTS FROM A MEDICAL POEM. 45 A slight post-mortem, if you please,• Surviving friends would gratify. The six young damsels wept aloud,Which so prevailed on six young men, That each his honest love avowed,Whereat they all got well again. This poor young man was all aghast ; The price of stethoscopes came down ;And so he was reduced at last To practise in a country town. The doctors being very sore,A stethoscope they did devise, That had a rammer to clear the bore,With a knob at the end to kill the flies. Now use your ears, all you that can,But dont forget to mind your eyes, Or you may be cheated, like this youngman,By a couple of silly, abnormal flies. EXTRACTS FROM A MEDICAL POEM. THE STABILITY OF SCIENCE. The feeble sea-birds, blinded in thestorms,On some tall lighthouse dash their little forms,And the rude granite scatters for their painsThose small deposits that were meant for brains.Yet the proud fabric in the mornings sunStands all unconscious of the mischief done ;Still the
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Image from page 69 of “Children’s ballads from history and folklore” (1886)
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Title: Children’s ballads from history and folklore
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Bates, Clara Doty, 1838-1895 McDermott, Jessie
Subjects: Ballads
Publisher: Boston : D. Lothrop & co.
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I see ? Its the rosiest peach in the whole of Jajsan;And its coming a-floating, a-floating to me. Now here is a feast for my darling old man.Oh, the Great Shogun not a finer can get! Some stewed lih-bulbs, and this beautiful peach,Wlien he comes from toil, before him Ill set. J Soon clown from the mountnin llie old man cainc,And fast on his back his fagot was boiuul. Oh, liasten you, husband, liis loving wife cried, And taste this beautiful peach that I found ! But just as lie took it the peach split in twain,And a fat little baby with raven-black hair Vas cradled right in the heart of the peach.And lay a-twinkling and blinking there. Oh you brave little boy, you shall be our own sonAnd Moniotaro shall have for a name, Or Little Peachling, since out of a peach. You dear little fellow, this morning you came. The rice-fields blossomed for twenty more years,While the gurgling old river amongst them ran; For twenty more years grew the slim bamboo.And Little Peachling was grown to a man.
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Some millet dumpluigs priA make for me,To his good foster mother lie said one da}-, nd off to the ogres castle Ill go, nd the whole of their treasure will bring awa)^ As thick in the ogres treasure-vaultsThe jewels are lying as sea-shore sands; With blue snow-gates on the mountain-top,The ogres castle all proudly stands — With blue snow-gates that are stronger than steel; But I will enter, and will bring to youThe wealth from the ogres treasure-vaults. Hung over with pearls, like flowers with dew. I have made you the dumplings, his good mothersaid, But I fear lest the ogres should do you a harm.But the Little Peachling danced gayly away. With the millet-dumplings under his arm. A dog ]eapt out of a cluster ot pines : And what have you there, Little Peacliling, pray? The best millet-dumplings in all Japa.i,And Im to the ogres castle away. For one of your dumplings with you Ill goAnd the ogres castle will help subdue. •Well, you can bark at the castle-gate;So here is a dumpling, f
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