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First Line: Of all the lines that volumes fill
Last Line: That every jack had several gills.
Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c)


OF all the lines that volumes fill,
Since AEsop first his fables told,
The wisest is the proverb old,
That every Jack must have his Jill.

But when the crowd that nightly fills
The down-town places, hillward goes,
To hear them sing, one would suppose
That every Jack had several gills.





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