If people ask me,
I always tell them:
“Quite well, thank you, I’m very
If people ask me,
I always answer,

I met a Man as I went walking:
We got talking,
Man and I.
‘Where are you going to, Man?’ I
(I said to the Man as he went by)

When Anne and I go out a walk,
We hold each other’s hand and talk
Of all the things we mean to do
When Anne and I are forty-two.
And when we’ve thought about a thi

There are lions and roaring tigers
and enormous camels and things,
There are biffalo-buffalo-bisons,
and a great big bear with wings.
There’s a sort of a tiny potamus,

What shall I call
My dear little dormouse?
His eyes are small,
But his tail is e-nor-mouse.
I sometimes call him Terrible Joh

Lords of the Nursery
Wait in a row,
Five on the high wall,
And four on the low;
Big Kings and Little Kings,

I often wish I were a King,
And then I could do anything.
If only I were King of Spain,
I’d take my hat off in the rain.
If only I were King of France,

Where am I going? I don’t quite k
Down to the stream where the king—
Up on the hill where the pine—tree
Anywhere, anywhere. I don’t know.
Where am I going? The clouds sail

No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.
It’s flying from somewhere

A bear, however hard he tries,
Grows tubby without exercise.
Our Teddy Bear is short and fat,
Which is not to be wondered at;
He gets what exercise he can