“Bugsby's reach is long as time,
His reach is wide as wind is,
He can pick you nettles in Greenwich Marsh
And docks in the East Indies.”

— Eleanor Farjeon

Bugsby's Reach
More Nursery Rhymes of London Town (1917)

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English children's writer 1881–1965

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