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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PROBLEM IN PHYSIOLOGY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography
First Line: So very tall is that young rascal, ned
Last Line: As if the lad were anything but tall!
Subject(s): Boys; Size And Shape
First Line: So very tall is that young rascal, ned
Last Line: As if the lad were anything but tall!
Subject(s): Boys; Size And Shape
So very tall is that young rascal, Ned,
He cannot stoop to weed my garden bed,
Nor bend his back to split the kindling wood,
And as for shovelling coal, -- he never could!
And yet Ned's queerly contradictory frame
Gayly achieves full many a groundling game,
Like marbles, leap frog, "mumble peg," -- and all
As if the lad were anything but tall!
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