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Peacock Pie

by Walter de la Mare

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I Can’t Abear

I can’t abear a Butcher,
     I can’t abide his meat,
  The ugliest shop of all is his,
     The ugliest in the street;
  Bakers’ are warm, cobblers’ dark,
     Chemists’ burn watery lights;
  But oh, the sawdust butcher’s shop,
     That ugliest of sights!

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