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A Toadstool Comes Up In A Night

by Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

A toadstool comes up in a night, -
Learn the lesson, little folk: -
An oak grows on a hundred years,
But then it is an oak.




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I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.
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