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Some Geese.

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EV-ER-Y child who has the use     Of his sen-ses knows a goose.     See them un-der-neath the tree     Gath-er round the goose-girl's knee,     While she reads them by the hour     From the works of Scho-pen-hau-er.     How pa-tient-ly the geese at-tend!     But do they re-al-ly com-pre-hend     What Scho-pen-hau-er's driv-ing at?     Oh, not at all; but what of that?     Nei-ther do I; nei-ther does she;     And, for that mat-ter, nor does he.

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