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“To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-gno” by W. B. Yeats 🇮🇪 (13 Jun 1865 – 28 Jan 1939)
Come play with me;
Why should you run
Through the shaking tree
As though I’d a gun
To strike you dead?
When all I would do
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Is to scratch your head
And let you go.