| Ta-da!
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| Oh yes indeed!
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| And now, Mirabile dictu et curibus pluribus unum!
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| Or to use the vernacular
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| Behold Professor Marvel’s Magical Lantern
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| To see the wonders of the world you won’t need to go too far from home
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| Not too far at all
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| Dorothy there are other ways
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| To see the world, so shift your gaze
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| To this extravagant appliance
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| Mainly magic, slightly science
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| With no stressful travel plans
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| As you don’t have to move from Kansas, see?
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| The unabridged assembled wonders of the world
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| Fly the coop and cross the ocean
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| Time and distance set in motion
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| Grab this chance to wander yonder
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| All the earth is ours to ponder
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| From the poles to the equator
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| No one could provide a greater view
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| There’s the Nile, now some don’t give a hoot
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| That it’s the longest river
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| But we know in miles of course it’s four-one-eighty
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| Seas to source
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| It’s nature at it’s most prolific
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| Pyramids are quite terrific too
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| So welcome to the waiting wonders of the world
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| Sometimes we may feel something simply can’t be real
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| Like a road beneath your feet that’s paved with gold
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| I would be inclined to maintain an open mind
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| For truth is very strange if truth be told
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| There’s old popacatepetl
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| New York City, glass and metal
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| Everest unconquered mountain
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| Over five miles high and countin'
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| Here’s the arctic pole and polar bears
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| And northern lights and solar flares
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| A myriad exquisite wonders of the world
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| Imagine red and blue on the mountains of Peru
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| And Sahara sands of yellow burning white
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| In jungles black and green fearsome creatures never seen
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| Other than right now- oh! |
| That’s not right!
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| I’m so sorry, that was from my private collection
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| Moving rapidly along
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| We don’t have to take it slowly
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| Here’s Tibet, remote and holy
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| Angel falls in Venezuela
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| Eiffel Tower, humpback whale!
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| A moment feeling all the thrills
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| Of being near the seven hills of Rome
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| Oh so many sights to savour
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| This has merely been a flavour
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| Maybe time for one more wonder
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| Very strange it looks like thunder
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| But the point that I’m conveying
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| Is you see it all while staying home
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| And home is one of many wonders of the world
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| The unabridged assembled wonders of the world
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| Professor Marvel’s patent wonders of the world |