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Birch and green holly, boys
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
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Birch and green holly, boys,
Birch and green holly.
If you get beaten, boys,
'Twill be your own folly.
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Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Scholastic.
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