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I never reared a young Wombat <br> To glad me with his pin-hole eye, <br> But when he most was sweet &amp; fat <br> And tail-less; he was sure to die!</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti" class="extiw" title="w:en:Dante Gabriel Rossetti"><span title="English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator (1828-1882)">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</span></a>
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6 November 1869<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1869-11-06T00:00:00Z/11</div>
reproduction of MS., obtained from small scan at  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_image.aspx?image=ps340033.jpg&amp;retpage=21435">BM</a>