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The things the armoured towers / tell / are not quite real / The things they do / never "happen" only their actions / convince / on those occasions / when they blow up / and scatter her reason / Sometimes / a level shaft of sweetness / cleaves / the irate thunder / Miss Bunn / whose face of a china doll / has taken on a / significance / of foolish intelligence / that children love so well / who performs / the duties of a clown / and whose door -- bell / is so low down / often invited to come / cajoles / chaos to laughter / seldom heard in this home / and only / in company / as a disguise for thunder / "If you be good girl or boy / as I suppose you be / you will neither laugh nor smile / at the tickling of your knee"
She brings / a surprise basket / full / of Japanese fishes / of cotton wool / "We will not tell / Miss Bunn" says father / "what we have done / peeping in the basket"