The bear ate a pear
\nYou think, how debonair
\nBut she wanted the eclair
\nWhich was already eaten in a picnick-error
\nBy a picnicker who was an au pair
\nBut tasted like an upholstered chair
\nSo the bear followed up by eating a pear
\nAnd slept that night without a care.<\/p>\n
\u2013 From the little book of rhymes about well fed-up bears<\/p>\n
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