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Bats
I'd really hate to go to bed
Just swinging from some wall.
But bats, they say, do just that way.
I'd not wish to at all.
I'd hate to swing down from my toes
All upside-down - and try to doze.
Written by Effie Lee Newsome (1885-1979)
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