It costs me never a stab nor squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm.
“Aha, my little dear,” I say,
“Your clan will pay me back one day.”
“Thought for a Sunshiny Morning”
“It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm.”
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