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"The Pobble who has no toes Had once as many as we; When they said, "Some day you may lose them all;"— He replied, — "Fish fiddle de-dee!"
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Edward Lear"I would be your wife most gladly! (Here she twirled her fingers madly,) But in England Ive a mate! Yes! youve asked me far too late, For in England Ive a mate."
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised but which term he never used.
"The Pobble who has no toes Had once as many as we; When they said, "Some day you may lose them all;"— He replied, — "Fish fiddle de-dee!"
"Its a fact the whole world knows, That Pebbles are happier without their toes."
"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!"
"There he heard a Lady talking, To some milk-white Hens of Dorking,— Tis the lady Jingly Jones! On that little heap of stones Sits the Lady Jingly Jones!"
"His mind is concrete and fastidious, His nose is remarkably big; His visage is more or less hideous, His beard it resembles a wig."
"On the top of the Crumpetty Tree The Quangle Wangle sat, But his face you could not see, On account of his Beaver Hat."