Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXXV. Paradoxes.

My true love lives far from me,
Perrie, Merrie, Dixie, Dominie.
Many a rich present he sends to me,
Petrum, Partrum, Paradise, Temporie,
Perrie, Merrie, Dixie, Dominie.
He sent me a goose, without a bone;
He sent me a cherry, without a stone.
Petrum, & c.
He sent me a Bible, no man could read;
He sent me a blanket, without a thread.
Petrum, & c.
How could there be a goose without a bone?
How could there be a cherry without a stone?
Petrum, & c.
How could there be a Bible no man could read?
How could there be a blanket without a thread?
Petrum, & c.
When the goose is in the egg-shell, there is no bone;
When the cherry is in the blossom, there is no stone.
Petrum, & c.
When ye Bible is in ye press no man it can read;
When ye wool is on ye sheep's back, there is no thread.
Petrum, & c.