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There lived in ancient Scribbletown a wise old writer-man, / Whose name was Homer Cicero Demosthenes McCann. / He'd written treatises and themes till, "For a change," he said, / "I think I'll write a children's book before I go to bed."
He pulled down all his musty tomes in Latin and in Greek; / Consulted cyclopaedias and manuscripts antique, / Essays in Anthropology, studies in counterpoise -- / "For these," he said, "are useful lore for little girls and boys."
He scribbled hard, and scribbled fast, he burned the midnight oil, / And when he reached "The End" he felt rewarded for his toil; / He said, "This charming Children's Book is greatly to my credit. " / And now he's sorely puzzled that no child has ever read it.