Diccora Dogium.

Dickory dickory dock,
The mouse ran up the clock,
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Dickory dickory dock.

Diccora diccora dogium,
Ascendit mus horologium.
    Insonuit hora,
    Fugit mus sine morâ,
Diccora diccora dogium.

Jacob Bigelow

Jacob Bigelow was an American physician, botanist, and botanical illustrator. He was instrumental in the founding of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first rural cemetery in the United States and a precursor to America's public parks. Bigelow was a leading advocate for modernizing medicine and medical education, focusing on practical medicine and scientific advancements. His contributions to botany include the publication of 'American Medical Botany,' which combined his medical knowledge with detailed botanical illustrations.

Jacob Bigelow

Puer Cæruleus.

Jacob Bigelow, Simple Poetry

Ansercula.

Jacob Bigelow, Simple Poetry

Homunculus Et Puellula.

Jacob Bigelow, Simple Poetry

Vetula Calceocola.

Jacob Bigelow, Simple Poetry

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Swings the pendulum to and fro,
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Grave and solemn on the wall,--
Hear it whisper! hear it call!
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Tick-tack! tick-tack!
White old face with figures black!
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Most that he cares for is to sit
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Hickory, dickory dock!
The mouse ran up the clock;
The clock struck one,
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Hickory, dickory dock!

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Felis In Fidibus.

Heigh diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed
To see such a craft,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Hidideldelis,
In fidibus felis,
Super lunam vacca saltavit.
Tum risit canicula,
Visâ re tam ridiculâ,
Et lanx cochleare raptavit.

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Little Dick And The Clock

When Dicky was sick
    In the night, and the clock,
As he listened, said "Tick-
    Atty - tick-atty - tock!"
He said that it said,
    Every time it said "Tick,"
It said "Sick," instead,
    And he heard it say "Sick!"
And when it said "Tick-
    Atty - tick-atty - tock,"
He said it said "Sick-
    Atty - sick-atty - sock!"
And he tried to see then,
    But the light was too dim,
Yet he heard it again -
    And't was talking to him!

And then it said "Sick-
    Atty - sick-atty - sick
You poor little Dick-
    Atty - Dick-atty - dock!
Have you got the hick-
    Atties? Hi! send for Doc
To hurry up quick
    Atty - quick-atty - quock,
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Ansercula.

Goosey goosey gander,
Where shall you wander?
Up stairs, down stairs,
In my ladys chamber.

    Ansercula vagula, blandula,
    Quæ nunc abibis in loca?
    Sursum, deorsum,
    In dominæ cubiculum.

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The Clock Of The Universe

    A clock aeonian, steady and tall,
With its back to creation's flaming wall,
Stands at the foot of a dim, wide stair.
Swing, swang, its pendulum goes,
Swing--swang--here--there!
Its tick and its tack like the sledge-hammer blows
Of Tubal Cain, the mighty man!
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On the heart of man and woman they fall,
With an echo of blessing, an echo of ban;
For each tick is a hope, each tack is a fear,
Each tick is a Where, each tack a Not here,
Each tick is a kiss, each tack is a blow,
Each tick says Why, each tack I don't know.
Swing, swang, the pendulum!
Tick and tack, and go and come,
With a haunting, far-off, dreamy hum,
With a tick, tack, loud and dumb,
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