The Queer Querulous Quail

The Enthusiastic Elephant,
who ferried himself across the water with the
Kitchen Poker and a New pair of Ear-rings.

The Worrying Whizzing Wasp,
who stood on a Table, and played sweetly on a
Flute with a Morning Cap.

    I.

Calico pie,
The little birds fly
Down to the calico-tree:
Their wings were blue,
And they sang "Tilly-loo!"
Till away they flew;
And they never came back to me!
They never came back,
They never came back,
They never came back to me!


    II.

Calico jam,
The little Fish swam
Over the Syllabub Sea.
He took off his hat
To the Sole and the Sprat,
And the Willeby-wat:
But he never came back to me;
He never came back,
He never came back,
He never came back to me.




    III.

Calico ban,
The little Mice ran
To be ready in time for tea;
Flippity flup,
They drank it al...

The Good-natured Grey Gull,
who carried the Old Owl, and his Crimson Carpet-bag,
across the river, because he could not swim.

 tumbled down, and hurt his Arm, against a bit of wood,

 said. "My Boy, oh, do not cry; it cannot do you good!"

 said, "A Cup of Coffee hot can't do you any harm."

 said, "A Doctor should be fetched, and he would cure the arm."

 said, "An Egg beat up with milk would quickly make him well."

 said, "A Fish, if broiled, might cure, if only by the smell."

 said, "Green Gooseberry fool, the best of cures I hold."

Edward Lear

There was an old man of Dumbree,
Who taught little owls to drink tea;
For he said, "To eat mice
Is not proper or nice,"
That amiable man of Dumbree.