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THE PARLOR AND THE FLY by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: WILL YOU WALK INTO THE SPIDER?
Last Line: "HE WILL HAVE NO ROOM TO SPIN."
Subject(s): INSECTS; SPIDERS; BUGS;
"Will you walk into the Spider?"
Said the Parlor to the Fly;
"He's the emptiest little spider
That ever you did spy.

"And he covers me with cobweb;
So I want you to go in;
For -- his lower chamber furnished --
He will have no room to spin."



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