There came a car with flying mice:
The queen, inside the car so grand,
Convey'd poor Tom to a fairy land.
His health restored, she, by her art,
In a gale, sent Tom to Arthur's court.

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King Arthur loved good furmenty,--
The cook made a bowl for his majesty;
In conveying it to the palace, hot,
Our hero into the bowl did drop!
The cook was fill'd with great surprise,
For the liquor burnt his nose and eyes.
The bowl being broke, the angry cook
Before the king our hero took:
When the king beheld Tom's awful plight,
He pardon gave, and dubb'd him knight.

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Tom, in the palace, lived content;
With the king to hunt, on a mouse he went:
One day, the mouse a cat espied,
And soon to catch him pussey tried;
Tom drew his sword, and spoilt her treat,
By slaying pussey at his feet.
Thus, Tom lived happy--without strife,
Till the queen, in anger, sought his life.
In the palace he could no longer stay;
So on a butterfly he rode away.

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The butterfly flew from flower to flower;
The queen tried to catch it for many an hour;
Till at last, oh, direful tale to tell,
Into a spider's web our hero fell!
The spider ran to seize his prey;
Tom, with his sword, fought valiantly;
Till, alas! the spider's poisonous breath
Was the cause of our gallant hero's death.
In a bower of roses his tomb they rear'd,
And on it this epitaph appear'd:--

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Of life deprived, by a spider's bite,
Here lies Tom Thumb, a valiant knight:
His feasts in Arthur's court, and sight,
Fill'd all with wonder and delight.
He was bold at tilt and tournament;
On a mouse, with the king, the hunt he went:
His deeds were great, tho' his size was small,
And his death was mourned by one and all.
Then, reader, pause; one tear now shed,
And cry, "Alas! Tom Thumb is dead."

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