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Little Boy Blue

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Little Boy Blue
sleeps while the sheep’s in the corn. [Nurs. Rhyme: Baring Gould, 46]

Little Boy Blue
asleep under haystack while livestock roam. [Nurs. Rhyme: Mother Goose, 11]
See : Laziness

Little Boy Blue
asleep while his sheep are in the field. [Nurs. Rhyme: Baring-Gould, 46]
See : Shepherd

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Starting from the premises: a/ Diamond "begin[s] at the beginning"; b/ he has not yet found the song of the river and has "almost reached the end" when he "c[omes] upon" Little Boy Blue, the logical conclusion is that the song of the river can only be the last poem in the book, Little Boy Blue the last but one, and The Early Bird can only precede both.
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Photo: Little Boy Blue (Graham Silbert), left, Little Miss Muffett (Kirsten O'Connell) and Georgie Porgie (Dane Biren) entertain children in ``Mary-Mary, Quite Contrary,'' at the Santa Monica Playhouse.
 
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