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For copyright reasons we are not able to provide the full text of the poem on this database. Following are the details of the publication in which it appears.
Noel Petty is a retired mathmatician living in Stockton-on- Tees. This poem appears in this poem doesn't rhyme, edited by Gerard Benson and published by Puffin at pounds 3.99. All this week, the Daily Poem will feature poetry by and for children.
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