oldbookillustrations: the once was a baby of yore, But no one knew what it was for; And being afraid It might be mislaid, They put it away in a drawer. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, from Nonsense rhymes, by Cosmo Monkhouse, London, 1900. (Source: archive.org)
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the once was a baby of yore,
But no one knew what it was for;
And being afraid
It might be mislaid,
They put it away in a drawer.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, from Nonsense rhymes, by Cosmo Monkhouse, London, 1900.

(Source: archive.org)

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