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The Three Voices

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There once was a man who asked for pie,      In a piping voice up high, up high;      And when he asked for a salmon roe,      He spoke in a voice down low, down low;      But when he said he had no choice,      He always spoke in a medium voice.      I cannot tell the reason why      He sometimes spoke up high, up high;      And why he sometimes spoke down low,      I do not know, I do not know;      And why he spoke in the medium way,      Don't ask me, for I cannot say.

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