Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The Worlds Best Poetry. Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | Poems of Home: III. Fun for Little Folk | The Owl and the Pussy-cat | Edward Lear (18121888) |
| I. THE OWL and the Pussy-cat went to sea | |
In a beautiful pea-green boat: | |
They took some honey, and plenty of money | |
Wrapped up in a five-pound note. | |
The Owl looked up to the stars above, | 5 |
And sang to a small guitar, | |
O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love, | |
What a beautiful Pussy you are, | |
You are, | |
You are! | 10 |
What a beautiful Pussy you are! | |
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II. Pussy said to the Owl, You elegant fowl, | |
How charmingly sweet you sing! | |
Oh! let us be married; too long we have tarried: | |
But what shall we do for a ring? | 15 |
They sailed away, for a year and a day, | |
To the land where the bong-tree grows; | |
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood, | |
With a ring at the end of his nose, | |
His nose, | 20 |
His nose, | |
With a ring at the end of his nose. | |
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III. Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling | |
Your ring? Said the Piggy, I will. | |
So they took it away, and were married next day | 25 |
By the turkey who lives on the hill. | |
They dined on mince and slices of quince, | |
Which they ate with a runcible spoon; | |
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, | |
They danced by the light of the moon, | 30 |
The moon, | |
The moon, | |
They danced by the light of the moon. | | | |
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