
When Temperence Potts developed phossy jaw Sister Erma
had to
put her to bed in a squeezed bonnet

Strycken with pestilence, we suffered fearful torture
and sounded
sonorous complaynt

Sister plied a clear brothe but Temperence refused to drinck

We prayed a psalm of mercy while the sicke one grimly writhed

But sallow Temperence only stared round, and repeated some
gibberish that nobody could understand
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