Doggerel

[poliphilo]

           
              I had to live to sixty-three
              To see the crow in the cherry tree.

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[splodgenoodles.livejournal.com]

I had to live to forty-seven
to learn that sex could take me to heaven.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There you go then. Growing old isn't all bad news. :)

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Well dearie me, I do declare
Are you sure a crow's up there?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I looked it up in my Collins bird book
And I'm not entirely sure that it wasn't a rook.

[sovay]

I had to live to sixty-three
To see the crow in the cherry tree.

Hey, Housman.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It does rather tend that way, doesn't it. :)

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Also, do you know 'Counting in Sevens'?

[...]
Seven nines are sixty-three; seven tens are seventy.
Who would that old woman be?
She will remember being me,
But what she is I cannot see.

Yet with every added seven.
Some strange present I was given.