“Water, Loo! water, Loo! fetch me some water!
There isn't a drop for a mile and a quarter!
The ground is so hard and the ground is so dry
I'm frightened my little red rose-bush will die.”

Waterloo
Nursery Rhymes of London Town (1916)

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English children's writer 1881–1965

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