Recursive Prepositions

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 straggling phrases I abhor,

And yet I wondered, "What should he come

Up from out of in under there for?"

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John Moore. 1961. You English words. A book about them. New York: Dell. 197.