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De elementen
Translations © by Lidy van Noordenburg
by Robert Chilcott (b. 1955)
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I am the very air you breathe [ ... ]
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- by Roger McGough (b. 1937), written 1992, appears in Defying Gravity, copyright ©
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‘O’ is for oxygen so gregarious [ ... ]
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.‘O’ staat voor zuurstof, dat is overal [ ... ]
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I am an atom of carbon [ ... ]
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- by Roger McGough (b. 1937), written 1992, appears in Defying Gravity, copyright ©
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Fe fi fo fum [ ... ]
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Fe fi fo fum [ ... ]
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I repose at great speed [ ... ]
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- by Roger McGough (b. 1937), written 1992, appears in Defying Gravity, copyright ©
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I’m what gives witches a bad name [ ... ]
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- by Roger McGough (b. 1937), written 1992, appears in Defying Gravity, copyright ©
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I’m not a colour [ ... ]
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- by Roger McGough (b. 1937), written 1992, appears in Defying Gravity, copyright ©
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A mayfly blinks [ ... ]
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- by Roger McGough (b. 1937), written 1992, appears in Defying Gravity, copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Een eendagsvlieg knippert [ ... ]
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