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THE MIDGET by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

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First Line: JUST A SPAN AND HALF A SPAN
Last Line: HE KEEPS HIS OWN SMALL DARKENED HOUSE.
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;
Just a span and half a span
From head to heel was this little man.
Scarcely a capful of small bones
Raised up erect this Midget once.
Yet not a knuckle was askew;
Inches for feet God made him true;
And something handsome put between
His coal-black hair and beardless chin.
But now, forsooth, with mole and mouse,
He keeps his own small darkened house.



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