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If thou wilt close thy drowsy eyes,
My mulberry one, my golden son,
The rose shall sing thee lullabies,
My pretty cosset lambkin!

— Eugene Field

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It always was the biggest fish I caught that got away.

A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)

The best of all physicians
Is apple pie and cheese!

A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)

Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum: it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. Within the compass of five generations we find the Puritan first an uncompromising believer in demonology and magic, and then a scoffer at everything involving the play of fancy.

Oh, you who've been a-fishing will indorse me
when I say
That it always is the biggest fish you catch that
gets away!

A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred,
He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)

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