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But that's another story.
But that's another story.
I hate
To tell again a tale once fully told.
I hate
To tell again a tale once fully told.
For seldom shall she hear a tale
So said, so tender, yet so true.
For seldom shall she hear a tale
So said, so tender, yet so true.
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which
holdeth children from play, and old men read more
With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which
holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
I could a tale read more
But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand on end
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
This story will never go down.
This story will never go down.
