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The Infant’s Delight: Poetry

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Bat-Tle-Dore and Shut-Tle-Cock

See these mer-ry chil-dren four,
Now their les-son time is o’er,
Deal-ing with the bat-tle-dore
  Steady blow on blow;

Till the fea-thered shut-tle-cocks
Fly at their al-ter-nate knocks,
“Re-gu-lar as kitch-en clocks,”

Spin-ning to and fro.

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