Part 4 (1/2)

I doubt it....

V for

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the un.o.btrusive Volunteer, Who fills the Armies of the World with fear.

MORAL.

Seek with the Volunteer to put aside The empty Pomp of Military Pride.

W

My little victim, let me trouble you To fix your active mind on W.

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The WATERBEETLE here shall teach A sermon far beyond your reach: He flabbergasts the Human Race By gliding on the water's face With ease, celerity, and grace; _But if he ever stopped to think Of how he did it, he would sink._

MORAL.

Don't ask Questions!

X

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No reasonable little Child expects A Grown-up Man to make a rhyme on X.

MORAL.

These verses teach a clever child to find Excuse for doing all that he's inclined.