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Beneath these high Cathedral stairs
Lie the remains of Susan Pares.
Her name was Wiggs, it was not Pares,
But Pares was put to rhyme with stairs.

[from The Complete Nonsense Book,
edited by Lady Strachey, 1912, p. 48.
Etext prepared by Doug Love.]


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