Where the wind comes from,Where the wind goes.It’s flying from somewhereAs fast as it can,I couldn’t keep up with it,Not if I ran.But if I stopped holdingThe string of my kite,It would blow with the windFor a day and a night.And then when I found it,Wherever it blew,I should know that the windHad been going…
And so has a crocodile, and so has a quail–They’ve all got tails but me.If I had sixpence I would buy one;I’d say to the shopman, ‘Let me try one’;I’d say to the elephant, ‘This is my one.’They’d all come round to see.Then I’d say to the lion, ‘Why, you’ve got a tail!And so has…
He multiplied as far as four,And knew what nine was taken fromTo make eleven. He could writeA letter to another Knight.No other Knight in all the landCould do the things which he could do.Not only did he understandThe way to polish swords, but knewWhat remedy a Knight should seekWhose armour had begun to squeak.And, if…
I took my pennyTo the market square.I wanted a rabbit,A little brown rabbit,And I looked for a rabbit‘Most everywhere.For I went to the stall where they sold sweet lavender(‘Only a penny for a bunch of lavender!’).‘Have you got a rabbit, ‘cos I don’t want lavender?’But they hadn’t got a rabbit, not anywhere there.I had a…
There are biffalo-buffalo-bisons,and a great big bear with wings.There’s a sort of a tiny potamus,and a tiny nosserus too –But I gave buns to the elephantwhen I went down to the Zoo!There are badgers and bidgers and bodgers,and a Super-in-tendent’s House,There are masses of goats, and a Polar,and different kinds of mouse,And I think there’s…
I am the King of the fields, and the KingOf the town.I am the King of the earth, and the KingOf the sky.Here I go up in my swing…Now I go down.
Up on the hill where the pine-trees blow-Anywhere, anywhere. I don’t know.Where am I going? The clouds sail by,Little ones, baby ones, over the sky.Where am I going? The shadows pass,Little ones, baby ones, over the grass.If you were a cloud, and sailed up there,You’d sail on water as blue as air,And you’d see me…
‘Quite well, thank you, I’m very glad to say.’If people ask me,I always answer,‘Quite well, thank you, how are you to-day?’I always answer,I always tell them,If they ask mePolitely…..BUT SOMETIMESI wishThat they wouldn’t.
The Queen, andThe Queen askedThe Dairymaid:‘Could we have some butter forThe Royal slice of bread?’The Queen asked the Dairymaid,The DairymaidSaid, ‘Certainly,I’ll go and tell the cowNowBefore she goes to bed.’The DairymaidShe curtsied,And went and toldThe Alderney:‘Don’t forget the butter forThe Royal slice of bread.’The AlderneySaid sleepily:‘You’d better tellHis MajestyThat many people nowadaysLike marmaladeInstead.’The DairymaidSaid, ‘Fancy!’And…
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