Forgiven
A. A. Milne
1882 to 1956
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I found a little beetle; so that Beetle was ______ name,
And I called him Alexander and he answered ______ the same.
I put him in a match-box, and ______ kept him all the day...
And Nanny ______ my beetle out -
Yes, Nanny let my beetle ______ -
She went and let my beetle out -
______ Beetle ran away.
She said she didn't mean it, ______ I never said she did,
She said she wanted ______ and she just took off the lid,
She said ______ she was sorry, but it's difficult to catch
An ______ sort of beetle you've mistaken for a match.
She ______ that she was sorry, and I really mustn't mind,
______ there's lots and lots of beetles which she's certain ______ could find,
If we looked about the garden for ______ holes where beetles hid -
And we'd get another match-box and write BEETLE on the lid.
We went to ______ the places which a beetle might be near,
And ______ made the sort of noises which a beetle likes ______ hear,
And I saw a kind of something, and ______ gave a sort of shout:
"A beetle-house and Alexander ______ coming out!"
It was Alexander Beetle I'm as ______ as can be,
And he had a sort of ______ as if he thought it must be Me,
And ______ had a sort of look as if he thought ______ ought to say:
"I'm very very sorry that I ______ to run away."
And Nanny's very sorry too ______ you-know-what-she-did,
And she's writing ALEXANDER very blackly on the lid,
So Nan and Me are friends, because it's difficult ______ catch
An excited Alexander you've mistaken for a match.