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Sat on a tuffet
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Eating her curds and whey
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Along came a spider …
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He sat down beside her
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And frightened Miss Muffet away.
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Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot.
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But the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville, did not.
This is actually one of my favorite lines in American literature. Love the rhyme, and the definitive last syllable!
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Nope, not looking it up.
My favorite thing about the Grinch story is the description of the Who’s ‘feast on roast beast’. As a child I thought ‘roast beast’ must be very good.
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He brought everything back, all the food for the feast!
And he, he himself, the Grinch, carved the roast beast!
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He puzzled and puzzled till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before!
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Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store.
Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
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Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums!
Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums!
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Then he growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming,
“I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming!”
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