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33 INVOLVED (The Spider) Lying on the hilltop In the grasses tall, Forest of the grasses And myself so small, Underneath the grass trees In the sunny shine, I saw the biggest spider With eyes as big as mine: And they were growing larger still, For in them I could see A little, tiny brown girl Who looked like me; And in her little brown eyes I saw a spider crawl, And in that little spider’s eyes A girl so very small I just could see her eyes glint, And in the glint there shone A little, wee spider Staring all alone. . . . He stared at me so softly I jumped up to run And stepped on a spider mite; Then blood was in the sun— A little spot of mite blood On the grasses’ shine, And in that blood a little drop Of blood as red as mine. ...

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