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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BOOKS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poet's Biography
First Line: The rows of letters on the page
Last Line: And guess at what the letters say.
Subject(s): Books; Children; Illiteracy; Reading; Childhood
First Line: The rows of letters on the page
Last Line: And guess at what the letters say.
Subject(s): Books; Children; Illiteracy; Reading; Childhood
The rows of letters on the page
Can talk, for grown-ups tell me so;
But pictures tell me, at my age,
Quite all the things I need to know.
But when there are no pictures there,
(And many books are made that way)
I open pages anywhere
And guess at what the letters say.
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