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Dwell Not With Me

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Dwell, not with me,     For youll never see     More than a possum or a kangaroo,     And now and then a cockatoo.     Oh, would you wish,     Without a dish,     Your scanty meal from a piece of bark,     And a wood fire to illume the dark.     Tis there youd mourn,     Tis there youd mourn     The sweet woodbine     That round your lattice now doth twine.     Fond friends, dont grieve     For scenes like these,     Or smart from bugs, mosquitoes, fleas.     Dwell not with me.

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