 our Mayor's a noddy: And as for our Corporation — shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin ! You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe...  A Little Book of Light Verse - Page 971902 - 193 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - 1896 - 344 pages
...gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's like to rid us of our vermin ! Rouse up, Sirs ! Give your brains a racking To find...and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. Iv. An hour they sate in council, At length the Mayor broke silence : For a guilder I'd my ermine gown... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pages
...because you're old ad obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease! Rouse up, sirs ! Give your braios » racking To find the remedy we're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send yon picfc> ing 1 " At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1920 - 456 pages
...remedy we're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing!" At this the Mayor and Corporation 10 Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sat...I'd my ermine gown sell; I wish I were a mile hence! i5 It's easy to bid one rack one's brain— I'm sure my poor head aches again, I've scratched it so,... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1920 - 458 pages
...remedy we're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing!" At this the Mayor and Corporation 10 Quaked with a mighty consternation. * An hour they...I'd my ermine gown sell; I wish I were a mile hence 1 1s It's easy to bid one rack one's brain — I'm sure my poor head aches again, I've scratched it... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1920 - 536 pages
...rid us of our vermin! You hope, because you're old and obese, 5 To find in the furry civic robe ease! Rouse up, sirs! Give your brains a racking To find...send you packing!" At this the Mayor and Corporation 10 Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sat in council; At length the Mayor broke silence:... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1921 - 1378 pages
...us of our vermin ! "You hope, because you're old and obese, "To find in the furry civic robe ease? "Rouse up, sirs! Give your brains a racking "To find...my ermine gown sell, "I wish I were a mile hence! 80 " It's easy to bid one rack one's brain — "I'm sure my poor head aches again, "I've scratched... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1922 - 406 pages
...rid us of our vermin! You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease? Rouse up, sirs! Give your brains a racking To find...and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. IV An hour they sat in council; At length the Mayor broke silence: /For a guilder I'd my ermine gown... | |
 | Charles H. Sylvester - 1922 - 518 pages
...rid us of our vermin! You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease? Rouse up, sirs! Give your brains a racking To find...and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. PEOPLE CALL ME THE PIED PIPEH An hour they sate in counsel,— At length the Mayor broke silence: "For... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1922 - 288 pages
...rid us of our vermin! You hope, because you 're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease! Rouse up, sirs! Give your brains a racking To find...and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. \ IV An hour they sat in Council; At length the Mayor broke silence: "For a guilder I'd my ermine gown... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pages
...rid us of our vermin ! You hope, because you 're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease? Rouse up, sirs ! Give your brains a racking To find the remedy we 're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing 1" At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked... | |
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