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Once a pair of savages found a str… (One-piecee stick –pidgin —two pie… Straddle-um-paddle-um-push –um off… That way Foleign Debbil-boat bega… But before, and before, and ever s…
Now this is the next tale, and it tells how the Camel got his big hump. In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Ma...
There are three degrees of bliss At the foot of Allah’s Throne, And the highest place is his Who saves a brother’s soul At peril of his own.
AS I PASS through my incarnatio… I make my proper prostrations to t… Peering through reverent fingers… And the Gods of the Copybook Hea… We were living in trees when they…
(Herrick) Since ye distemper and defile Sweet Here by the measured mile, Nor aught on jocund highways heed Except the evidence of speed;
NOW the Four—way Lodge is opened… Now the Smokes of Spring go up to… Now the Young Men’s hearts are tr… Now the Red Gods make their medic… Who hath seen the beaver busied?…
You must n’t swim till you’re six… Or your head will be sunk by your… And summer gales and Killer Whale… Are bad for baby seals. Are bad for baby seals, dear rat,
'LESS you want your toes trod of… For the bullocks are walking two b… The byles are walking two by two, And the elephants bring the guns. Ho! Yuss!
Me that 'ave been what I’ve been… Me that 'ave gone where I’ve gone… Me that 'ave seen what I’ve seen… 'Ow can I ever take on With awful old England again,
I’ve danced till my shoes are outw… From ten till the hours called sma… I’ve cantered with Beauty at morn… At even made love at the ball. Light Loves for five months were…
WHEN all the world would keep a… Since Truth is seldom friend to a… Men write in fable, as old Æsop di… Jesting at that which none will na… And this they needs must do, or it…
THERE is a world outside the one… To which for curiousness ’Ell can… It is the place where “wilful—miss… As we can testify, for we are ther… You may ’ave read a bullet laid us…
IT IS always a temptation to an… To call upon a neighbour and to sa… “We invaded you last night– we are… Unless you pay us cash to go away.… And that is called asking for Dan…
WHEEL me gently to the garage, s… No more for me the record and the… That cursèd left—hand cylinder the… Is pinking past redemption—I am d… They’ll never strike a mixture tha…
The wreath of banquet overnight la… Our hands and scarfs were saffron-… When we went forth to Paniput to… Ere we came back from Paniput and… Thrice thirty thousand men were we…