Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SWEET-TOOTH, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON


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First Line: Taking a turn after tea
Last Line: Timothy under the crab-apple tree.


Taking a turn after tea
Through orchards of Mirabelea
Where clusters of yellow and red
Dangled and glowed overhead,
Who should I see
But old Timothy,
Hale and hearty as hearty could be --
Timothy under a crab-apple tree.

His blue eyes twinkling at me,
Munching and crunching with glee
And wagging his wicked old head,
"I've still got a sweet-tooth," he said,
"A hundred and three
Come January,
I've one tooth left in my head," said he --
Timothy under the crab-apple tree.





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