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THE WORLD IS SO SMALL by BURGES JOHNSON

First Line: THE WORLD'S A VERY LITTLE PLACE
Last Line: TO SUIT ME SO.
Subject(s): BABIES; EARTH; INFANTS; WORLD;

The world's a very little place,
And part of it is walls and floors,
And part's a pleasant sunny place
They call "outdoors."

They sometimes wheel me up the street
When all the world goes out to walk,
And everybody that I meet
Talks baby-talk.

The sun behaves in just the way
To most oblige a little tot;
It's daylight till I'm through my play,
And then it's not!

The raindrops never seem to fall
In any place where I may go
The world must truly be quite small
To suit me so.



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