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1866–1951

TIDINESS

Gelett Burgess

Little scraps of paper, Little crumbs of food, Make a room untidy, Everywhere they're strewed.

Do you sharpen pencils, Ever, on the floor? What becomes of orange-peels And your apple-core?

Can you blame your mother If she looks severe. When she says, “It looks to me As if the Goops were here”?

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