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Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.
Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise,
Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;
Or, underneath the umbrella's oily read more
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise,
Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;
Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade,
Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread,
Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display,
To guard their beauties from the sunny ray;
Or sweating slaves support the shady load,
When eastern monarchs show their state abroad;
Britain in winter only knows its aid,
To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.
When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve,
When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.
When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve,
When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.
The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides,
While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides,
While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, read more
Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.
We bear our shades about us; self-deprived
Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,
And range an read more
We bear our shades about us; self-deprived
Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,
And range an Indian waste without a tree.
Of doues I haue a dainty paire
Which, when you please to take the aier,
About your read more
Of doues I haue a dainty paire
Which, when you please to take the aier,
About your head shall gently houer,
Your cleere browe from the sunne to couer,
And with their nimble wings shall fan you
That neither cold nor heate shall tan you,
And like umbrellas, with their feathers
Sheeld you in all sorts of weathers.
See, here's a shadow found; the human nature
Is made th' umbrella to the Deity,
To catch read more
See, here's a shadow found; the human nature
Is made th' umbrella to the Deity,
To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator;
Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.