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- From: funkster@cats.ucsc.edu (Larry Hastings)
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- Subject: Attribution and full text of poetry quoted in Willy Wonka movie?
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 08:01:52 GMT
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- The following poetry is recited by a "tinkerer" near the beginning of
- Roald Dahl's movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"... I've always
- found it an enigmatic quote, but have never had a proper attribution for it.
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- "Up the airy mountain
- And down the rushing glen
- We dare not go a-hunting
- For fear of little men"
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- Does anyone know the author, maybe the title, and even possibly have the
- full text of the poem?
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- -- larry hastings, the galactic funkster, funkstr@ucscb.ucsc.edu,
- -- all stated opinions are mine.
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