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Something Rhymes with Purple

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The Egg of Columbus

The egg of Columbus is a brilliant idea that seems easy once you know how. It actually does derive from an apparently apocryphal story from the 16th century. Oscar Wilde wrote this poem in the memory of his sister in 1881. There's nothing so heartbreaking as the death of a child. At least my friend, who is funeral I'm going to today, he lived his full score.

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