TINKER DICK
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Good Parson Dickson preached, I'm told, A sermon—ah, 'twas very old And very, very, bald! 'Twas all about—I know not what It was about, nor what 'twas not. "A Screw Loose" it was called. Whatever, Parson Dick, you say, The world will get each blessed day Still more and more askew, And fall apart at last. Great snakes! What skillful tinker ever takes His tongue to turn a screw?