'Tis the Arabian bird alone
Lives chaste, because there is but one.
But had kind nature made them two,
They would like doves & sparrows do.

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shortest poem:

Sail,
Gale,
Pale,
Rail.

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Mary had a little plane,
And in it she would frisk.
But when she flew it upside down,
Her little *.

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Thirty days hath Septober,
April, June and no wonder.
All the rest have peanut butter...
Except my grandmother, who has a little red tricycle.

(all those who 'think' they know other versions of this are simply confused..THIS is the authentic, original version!)

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There goes the Wapiti,
Hippity, Hoppiti.

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks,
Which practically conceal it's sex.
I think it clever of the turtle
In such a fix, to be so fertile.

(last two from Ogden Nash)