The composer-conductor penned a score / That the critics would deplore. / Eager for blood, they'd rip him apart. / He'd face this, should the concert start.
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The composer-conductor penned a score / That the critics would deplore. / Eager for blood, they'd rip him apart. / He'd face this, should the concert start.
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Its study gave ol' Newton some attention well-deserved. / Einstein found the force's source: space itself is curved.
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"Don't elect that half animal / half man!" his political opponent did say. / "You know how he'll vote on the senate floor? All of his votes will be 'Nay!'"
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Rain consists of elemental bits. / The answer's cool because / As a noun, it serves to name the bits; / As a verb, it tells what each bit does.
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The wise men stood on a hundred bucks. But here's what's so absurd: / With the wave of a wand and a puff of white smoke, they turned into this word.
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Clothes that are this may be ruined, perhaps unfit for public view. / Glass that is this can be beautiful, admired from the pew.
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A major city by a lake, famed for winds that blast. / Its name suggests 'twas fashionable at some point in the past.
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He fed the wool to the spinning wheel as he began another story. / "In my first job I spun fibers from some rocks down in the quarry. / The fibers were much crumblier than the ones that you see here!" / He spun these as he spun these -- that should be quite clear.