To NOEL
THEY went to sea in GLIP, they did,
In GLIP they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a GLIP they went to sea!
And when the GLIP turned round and round,
And every one cried, `You'll all be drowned!'
They called aloud, `Our GLIP is TOO big,
But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
With NOEL we'll go to sea!'
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Commblies live;
Their milestones are mean, and their PUDKeys too,
And they went to sea in a GLIP.
They sailed away in a GLIP they did,
In a GLIP they sailed so fast,
With only a beautiful PEA-green veil
Tied with a NODULE by way of a sail,
To a small MEDICAGO mast;
And every one said, who saw them go,
`O won't they be soon upset, you know!
For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long,
And happen what may, it's extremely wrong
In a GLIP to sail so fast!'
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Commblies live;
Their milestones are mean, and their PUDKeys too,
And they went to sea in a GLIP.
The REPORTS they soon were due, they were,
The REPORTS, they soon were due;
To make them short, they sent a spreadsheet
In a wrinkly paper all folded neat,
And they fastened it down with a pin.
And they passed the night in a TRUNKULA-jar,
And each of them said, `How wise we are!
Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long,
Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong,
While round with our NOEL we spin!'
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Commblies live;
Their milestones are mean, and their PUDKeys too,
And they went to sea in a GLIP.
REFERENCES
Lear, E. The Jumblies.
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html
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