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BEDTIME STORIES by BURGES JOHNSON

First Line: ALL THE VERY NICEST THINGS
Last Line: OF THAT ONCE-UPON-A-TIME.
Subject(s): CHILDREN; STORY-TELLING; CHILDHOOD;
All the very nicest things
In the stories grandma told,
All the giant-killers bold,
All the fairy folk with wings,
Some in prose and some in rhyme,
Happened "Once-upon-a-time."

And I wished with all my heart
Once-upon-a-time was now!
For I made a solemn vow
I'd have taken mighty part
In those deeds of prose and rhyme,
Of that once-upon-a-time.



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