James and the Giant Peach
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I'd like to introduce
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This charming Glow-worm, lover of simplicity.
She is easy to install
On jour ceiling or your wall,
And although this smacks a bit of eccentricity, It's really rather clever
For there after you will never
You will NEVER NEVER NEVER
Have the slightest need for using electricity.'
(At which, no less than fifty-two
Policemen cried, 'If this is true
That creature'll get some fabulous publicity!')
'And here we have Miss Spider
With a mile of thread inside her
Who has personally requested me to say
That she's NEVER met Miss Muffet
On her charming little tuffet -
If she had she'd NOT have frightened her away.
Should her looks sometimes alarm you
Then I don't think it would harm you
To repeat at least a hundred times a day:
"I must NEVER kill a spider
I must only help and guide her
And invite her in the nursery to play." '
(The Police all nodded slightly,
And the Firemen smiled politely,
And about a dozen people cried, 'Hooray!')
'And here's my darling Ladybird, so beautjul, so kind, My greatest comfort since this trip began.
She has four hundred children and she's left them all behind, But they're coming on the next peach of the can.'
(The Cops cried, 'She's entrancing!'