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Miss Mantis Says Her Prayers
Miss Mantis said her evening prayers
Upon a sprig of thyme.
A gentleman in green came by.
‘My dear, you’re just in time.’
He put his arms about her waist
And swore, as lovers do,
‘There’s nothing in the world, my dear,
I would not give to you.’
She took him at his word, my love,
And ate him then and there.
How good of God to send her such
An answer to her prayer!
— 16 hours, 44 min ago
Miss Mantis said her evening prayers
Upon a sprig of thyme.
A gentleman in green came by.
‘My dear, you’re just in time.’
He put his arms about her waist
And swore, as lovers do,
‘There’s nothing in the world, my dear,
I would not give to you.’
She took him at his word, my love,
And ate him then and there.
How good of God to send her such
An answer to her prayer!
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In fact, not an extract from "Mother Nature's Little Book of Bedtime Rhymes", by "Herbert K. Methley", which is supposed to contain "prancing, jaunty little rhymes about creatures, which, if anthropomorphized at all, must appear evil in their human guise". The praying mantis and the cuckoo are named as examples. But I think ChatGPT 6.1 Sol Extra High has done a good job of guessing what one of these poems might have been like, had A.S. Byatt decided to include them.
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