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I lately lost a preposition...

I lately lost a preposition. It hid, I thought, beneath my chair. And angrily I cried, “Perdition!” Up from out of in under there.  Correctness is my vade mecum, And dangling phrases I abhor, But yet I wondered, “What should he come Up from out of in under there for? ”   [New Yorker, 27th September 1947] Morris Bishop