Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXII. Paradoxes.

    O that I was where I would be,
    Then would I be where I am not!
    But where I am must be,
    And where I would be I cannot.

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Nursery Rhyme. CLXV. Songs.

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Society

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Nursery Rhyme. LVI. Tales.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXXIII. Riddles.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXV. Paradoxes.

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