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A Nonsense Anthology

by Carolyn Wells

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The Parterre

I don’t know any greatest treat
      As sit him in a gay parterre,
  And sniff one up the perfume sweet
      Of every roses buttoning there.

It only want my charming miss
      Who make to blush the self red rose;
  Oh! I have envy of to kiss
      The end’s tip of her splendid nose.

Oh! I have envy of to be
      What grass ’neath her pantoffle push,
  And too much happy seemeth me
      The margaret which her vestige crush.

But I will meet her nose at nose,
      And take occasion for her hairs,
  And indicate her all my woes,
      That she in fine agree my prayers.

THE ENVOY
  I don’t know any greatest treat
      As sit him in a gay parterre,
  With Madame who is too more sweet
      Than every roses buttoning there.

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