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There was a man was half a clown / (It's so, my father tells of it), / He saw the church in Clermont Town, / And laughed to hear the bells of it.
He laughed to hear the bells that ring / In Clermont Church and round of it; / He heard the verger's daughter sing, / And loved her for the sound of it.