| I had a wonderful day today
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| I haven’t smiled so much in years
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| Every day has been a struggle
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| Since our little boy was
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| Born acutely blind with only
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| A very faint doorway of colour
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| Open him up to the world
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| We hopped on the tram up to Fawcett Street
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| And stopped for a haircut before
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| We passed through the gates of the big museum
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| And wandered up through the door
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| Oh, William, William, what can you see?
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| Mother, mother — I can see
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| Your hankerchief is wet with spit
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| Dappling at my cheek
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| The manager he bid us welcome
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| And patted each child on the head
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| And said to us this exhibition is the first of its kind in the country
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| He led us through a hallway
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| Into a foisty room
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| Boasting a dazzling array of
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| Animals, fishes and birds
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| The leathery nub of a badger’s snout
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| The papery wing of a stork
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| The spiralling tail of a pot-bellied pig
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| And the mane of a poor old horse
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| Oh, William, William, what can you see?
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| Mother, mother — I can see
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| A tawny owl perched in a tree
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| Talons around my finger
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| The rippling shell of a giant clam
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| A statue of the sea
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| The loggerhead turtle’s scaly feet
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| A minature cobbled street
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| A horny beetle, covered in spikes and barbs
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| Like holding the fossil of a fallen star
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| A corkscrew of tangled fur upon
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| The leg of a great polar bear
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| The notches and nodules on the crocodile’s forehead
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| Were more than the kids could bear
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| Oh, William, William, what can you see?
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| Mother, mother — I can see
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| A walrus dozing on the ice
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| Next to a frozen magpie
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| The ribs of a human skeleton
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| They rattle like our garden gate
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| Working the jawbone
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| And gnashing the teeth
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| He didn’t have too much to say
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| I can hardly believe that he was
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| Once a person, walking around on the street
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| On the way home we got ice-cream
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| Covered in monkey blood sauce
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| And taking the long way through the park
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| We slopped half of it down our clothes
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| Mother, mother, what can you see?
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| William, William, I can see the first few drops of rain in the air
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| Sparkling like diamonds
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| We had a wonderful day today
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| We had a wonderful day |