Dilly's Dress-Up



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MONDAY'S CHILD
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DILLY'S DRESS-UP

(A poem for Children)

Dilly Duck was excited

For she'd been invited

To a Fancy Dress Party that night.

'It's a slap-up affair

And I've nothing to wear!

I'll look such a terrible fright!'

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Then there came into view

A ribbon of blue

Left-over from Easter last year.

It looked quite a mess

But, nevertheless,

The sight filled her full of good cheer.

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She washed it and rubbed it,

And soaked it and scrubbed it,

And hung it outside on the line.

Then she ironed it neatly,

And changed it completely

Until it was perfectly fine.

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Then she wound it around her

Till it covered and bound her.

Then Dilly the Duck said  'Oh my!

They'll all be impressed

When they see how I'm dressed!

And they'll shout 'Dilly's come as the

SKY!'

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WHITE FLAMES

Rising like feathers into the air

From some unseen conflagration.

The white-heat chill of the climbing clouds.

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