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6 The Spinning Sage

There lived a sage in days of yore

And he a handsome pigtail wore;

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But wondered much and sorrowed more
Because it hung behind him.

He mused upon this curious case,

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And swore he’d change the pigtail’s place,
And have it hanging at his face,
Not dangling there behind him.

Says he, ‘The mystery I’ve found –
I’ll turn me round’ – he turned him round;
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But still it hung behind him.

Then round and round, and out and in, ,

All day the puzzled sage did spin;

In vain – it mattered not a pin –

The pigtail hung behind him.

And right and left, and round about,

And up and down, and in and out,

sage : a very wise person swore : vowed
days of yore : long ago dangling : hanging or swinging freely
pigtail : hair tied together into a mystery : something that is difficult to

bunch and twisted into plaits understand
mused : thought carefully mattered not a pin : made no
curious : (here) strange and unusual difference

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