I Lately Lost A Preposition; It Hid, I Thought, Beneath My Chair And Angrily I Cried, "Perdition!

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I lately lost a preposition;
It hid, I thought, beneath my chair
And angrily I cried, "Perdition!
Up from out of under there."

Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor,
And yet I wondered, "What should he come
Up from out of under for?"
-- Morris Bishop

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