The Skipping Rope
Alfred Lord Tennyson * Track #70 On Poems
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The Skipping Rope by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Alfred Lord TennysonThe Skipping Rope Annotated
Sure never yet was Antelope
Could skip so lightly by,
Stand off, or else my skipping-rope
Will hit you in the eye.
How lightly whirls the skipping-rope!
How fairy-like you fly!
Go, get you gone, you muse and mope
I hate that silly sigh.
Nay, dearest, teach me how to hope,
Or tell me how to die.
There, take it, take my skipping-rope,
And hang yourself thereby.