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The Money Tree
Once, when I was little,
I planted ten quid in the ground.
When I returned a whole year later,
The tenner was not to be found.
In its place was a sapling,
But smaller, it was tiny.
I instantly realised:
It was a money tree!
I came back to it daily,
To quench its sapling thirst,
Then when it had consumed its drink,
I'd sing it songs with wondrous mirth.
But then I came back one day,
To find the sapling gone.
Some cruel lads had trampled on it,
Angry at their day gone wrong.
And so I started crying,
At my lost sapling, my poor baby.
And though in time, I know I'll heal,
I'll miss my money tree.
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