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: Little Willow (slayground) wrote,
2010-02-19 05:55:00

Little Willow
slayground
2010-02-19 05:55:00

Poetry Friday: Lucy Locket

Lucy Locket lost her pocket,
Kitty Fisher found it;
Not a penny was there in it,
Only ribbon round it.

I only recently discovered this nursery rhyme, thanks to the novel A Pearl Among Princes by Coleen Murtagh Paratore, which started each chapter with a nursery rhyme.

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