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PRAISE OF FAMOUS MEN: 8. MRS. NESBITT, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While the treasure-seekers prove / nothing is so bad
Last Line: Oswald bastable.
Subject(s): Nesbit, Edith (1858-1924)


WHILE the Treasure-seekers prove
nothing is so bad
but it yields to children's love
plus a psammead,

and that parents, ordering
children, would do well
to instruct the man to bring
Oswald Bastable.





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