If people ask me,

Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.God bless Mummy. I know that’s right.Wasn’t it fun in the bath to-night?The cold’s so cold, and the hot’s so hot.Oh! God bless Daddy – I quite forgot.If I open my fingers a little bit more,I can see Nanny’s dressing-gown on the door.It’s a beautiful blue,…

There’s eight new puppies at Roundabout Farm-And I saw an old sailor with only one arm!But everyone says, ‘Run along!’(Run along, run along!)All of them say, ‘Run along! I’m busy as can be.’Every one says, ‘Run along,There’s a little darling!’If I’m a little darling, why don’t they run with me?There’s wind on the river and…

I think it is a Brownie, but I’m not quite certain.(Nanny isn’t certain, too.)I looked behind the curtain, but he went so quickly –Brownies never wait to say, ‘How do you do?’They wriggle off at once because they’re all so tickly(Nanny says they’re tickly too.)

Whatever I do, he wants to do,‘Where are you going today?’ says Pooh:‘Well, that’s very odd ‘cos I was too.Let’s go together,’ says Pooh, says he.‘Let’s go together,’ says Pooh.‘What’s twice eleven?’ I said to Pooh.(‘Twice what?’ said Pooh to Me.)‘I think it ought to be twenty-two.’‘Just what I think myself,’ said Pooh.‘It wasn’t an…

And I keep in the squares,And the masses of bears,Who wait at the corners all ready to eatThe sillies who tread on the lines of the streetGo back to their lairs,And I say to them, ‘Bears,Just look how I’m walking in all the squares!’And the little bears growl to each other, ‘He’s mine,As soon as…

When the sunMakes shadows of the leaves of the apple-tree,Then I passOn the grassFrom one leaf to another,From one leaf to its brother,Tip-toe, tip-toe!Here I go!