Signor Topsy-Turvy's wonderful magic lantern or The World turned upside down. By the author of "My Mother," and other poems [Ann and Jane Taylor]. Illustrated with twenty-four engravings |
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A LITTLE LADY IN A GREAT FRIGHT.
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A LITTLE LADY IN A GREAT FRIGHT.
Well! this is a picture that may
Provoke any body to laughter,
Here's a lady a running away,
And a spider a scampering after!
Provoke any body to laughter,
Here's a lady a running away,
And a spider a scampering after!
The spider express'd his surprise,
With contempt upon every feature,
That a thing of his minikin size,
Could fright so gigantic a creature!
With contempt upon every feature,
That a thing of his minikin size,
Could fright so gigantic a creature!
“I can do her no harm if I try,”
Said he, “with my pincers so pliant,
“For the fangs that would murder a fly,
“Would only just tickle a giant.
Said he, “with my pincers so pliant,
“For the fangs that would murder a fly,
“Would only just tickle a giant.
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“What need can there be for her fear?
“For were I about her to linger,
“I think it would take me a year
“To bite off the end of her finger!
“For were I about her to linger,
“I think it would take me a year
“To bite off the end of her finger!
“Or if a great web I should weave,
“Expecting that way to come at her,
“She could blow it away I believe,
“And there'd be an end of the matter.”
“Expecting that way to come at her,
“She could blow it away I believe,
“And there'd be an end of the matter.”
“True spider,—and yet I have heard,
“(Though a baby might crush you to pieces)
“Some people there are so absurd,
“As to fear you and all of your species.”
“(Though a baby might crush you to pieces)
“Some people there are so absurd,
“As to fear you and all of your species.”
With this he ran off to his net,
(A cobweb commodious and shady)
But told every neighbour he met,
That a spider can frighten a lady.
(A cobweb commodious and shady)
But told every neighbour he met,
That a spider can frighten a lady.
J.
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