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<B> <img src="HTMLobj-281/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="36" height="36">  </b></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>"How doth the little crocodile"</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>How doth the little crocodile</b></div> <div> <B>Improve his shining tail,</b></div> <div> <B>And pour the waters of the Nile</b></div> <div> <B>On every golden scale !</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>How cheerfully he seems to grin,</b></div> <div> <B>How neatly spreads his claws,</b></div> <div> <B>And welcomes little fishes in,</b></div> <div> <B>With gently smiling jaws !</b></div> <div> <B> <img src="HTMLobj-278/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="42" height="44">  </b></div> <div> <B>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>In winter, when the fields are white,</b></div> <div> <B>I sing this song for your delight -</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>In spring when woods are getting green,</b></div> <div> <B>I'll try and tell you what I mean :</b></div> <div> <B> <img src="HTMLobj-280/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="36" height="36">  </b></div> <div> <B>In summer when the days are long,</b></div> <div> <B>Perhaps you'll understand the song :</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>In autumn when the leaves are brown,</b></div> <div> <B>Take pen and ink and write it down.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>I sent a message to the fish :</b></div> <div> <B>I told them "This is what I wish."</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>The little fishes of the sea,</b></div> <div> <B>They sent an answer back to me.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>The little fishes' answer was</b></div> <div> <B>"We cannot do it, Sir, because -"</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>I sent to them again to say</b></div> <div> <B>"It will be better to obey."</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>The fishes answered with a grin,</b></div> <div> <B>"Why, what temper are you in !"</b></div> <div> <B> <img src="HTMLobj-279/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="36" height="36">  </b></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>I told them once, I told them twice :</b></div> <div> <B>They would not listen to advice.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>I took a kettle large and new,</b></div> <div> <B>Fit for the deed I had to do.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>My heart went hop, my heart went thump :</b></div> <div> <B>I filled the kettle at the pump.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Then some one came to me and said</b></div> <div> <B>"The little fishes are in bed."</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>I said to him, I said it plain,</b></div> <div> <B>"Then you must wake them up again."</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>I said it very loud and clear :</b></div> <div> <B>I went and shouted in his ear.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>But he was very stiff and proud :</b></div> <div> <B>He said "You needn't shout so loud !"</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>And he was very proud and stiff :</b></div> <div> <B>He said "I'd go and wake them, if -"</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>I took a corkscrew from the shelf :</b></div> <div> <B>I went to wake them up myself.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>And when I found the door was locked,</b></div> <div> <B>I pushed and pulled and kicked and knocked.</b></div> <div> <B> <img src="HTMLobj-282/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="36" height="36">  </b></div> <div> <B>I whent I found the door was shut,</b></div> <div> <B>I tried to turn the handle, but -</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>-----------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Jabberwocky </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves</b></div> <div> <B>did gyre and gimble in the wabe.</b></div> <div> <B>All mimsy were the borogoves,</b></div> <div> <B>And the mome raths outgrabe.</b></div> <div> <B>"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!</b></div> <div> <B>The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!</b></div> <div> <B>Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun</b></div> <div> <B>the frumious Bandersnatch!"</b></div> <div> <B>He took his vorpal sword in hand:</b></div> <div> <B>Long time the maxome foe he sought-</b></div> <div> <B>So rested he by the Tumtum tree,</b></div> <div> <B>And stood a while in thought.</b></div> <div> <B>As in uffish thought he stood,</b></div> <div> <B>The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,</b></div> <div> <B>Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,</b></div> <div> <B>And burbled as it came.</b></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="25d24240.gif" border=0 width="36" height="36" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC33" FACE="5thGrader" ><B>One, two! One, two! And through and through</b></FONT></div> <div> <B>The vorpal blade went snicker-snack.</b></div> <div> <B>He left it dead, and with its head</b></div> <div> <B>He went galumphing back.</b></div> <div> <B>"Has thou slain the Jabberwock?</b></div> <div> <B>Come to my arms, my beamish boy!</b></div> <div> <B>O frabjous day! Calloh! Callay!</b></div> <div> <B>He chortled in his joy.</b></div> <div> <B>'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves</b></div> <div> <B>Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:</b></div> <div> <B>All mimsy were the borogoves,</b></div> <div> <B>And the mome raths outgrabe.</b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>----------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>  Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur </b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> </b></div> <div> <B>"How shall I be a poet?</b></div> <div> <B>How shall I write in rhyme?</b></div> <div> <B>You told me once 'the very wish</b></div> <div> <B>Partook of the sublime.'</b></div> <div> <B>The tell me how! Don't put me off</b></div> <div> <B>With your 'another time'!"</b></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="25d24240.gif" border=0 width="36" height="36" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>The old man smiled to see him,</b></div> <div> <B>To hear his sudden sally;</b></div> <div> <B>He liked the lad to speak his mind</b></div> <div> <B>Enthusiastically;</b></div> <div> <B>And thought "There's no hum-drum in him,</b></div> <div> <B>Nor any shilly-shally."</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>"And would you be a poet</b></div> <div> <B>Before you've been to school?</b></div> <div> <B>Ah, well! I hardly thought you</b></div> <div> <B>So absolute a fool.</b></div> <div> <B>First learn to be spasmodic --</b></div> <div> <B>A very simple rule.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>"For first you write a sentence,</b></div> <div> <B>And then you chop it small;</b></div> <div> <B>Then mix the bits, and sort them out</b></div> <div> <B>Just as they chance to fall:</b></div> <div> <B>The order of the phrases makes</b></div> <div> <B>No difference at all.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>'Then, if you'd be impressive,</b></div> <div> <B>Remember what I say,</b></div> <div> <B>That abstract qualities begin</b></div> <div> <B>With capitals alway:</b></div> <div> <B>The True, the Good, the Beautiful --</b></div> <div> <B>Those are the things that pay!</b></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="25d24240.gif" border=0 width="36" height="36" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>"Next, when we are describing</b></div> <div> <B>A shape, or sound, or tint;</b></div> <div> <B>Don't state the matter plainly,</b></div> <div> <B>But put it in a hint;</b></div> <div> <B>And learn to look at all things</b></div> <div> <B>With a sort of mental squint."</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>"For instance, if I wished, Sir,</b></div> <div> <B>Of mutton-pies to tell,</b></div> <div> <B>Should I say 'dreams of fleecy flocks</b></div> <div> <B>Pent in a wheaten cell'?"</b></div> <div> <B>"Why, yes," the old man said: "that phrase</b></div> <div> <B>Would answer very well.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>"Then fourthly, there are epithets</b></div> <div> <B>That suit with any word --</b></div> <div> <B>As well as Harvey's Reading Sauce</b></div> <div> <B>With fish, or flesh, or bird --</b></div> <div> <B>Of these, 'wild,' 'lonely,' 'weary,' 'strange,'</b></div> <div> <B>Are much to be preferred."</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>"And will it do, O will it do</b></div> <div> <B>To take them in a lump --</b></div> <div> <B>As 'the wild man went his weary way</b></div> <div> <B>To a strange and lonely pump'?"</b></div> <div> <B>"Nay, nay! You must not hastily</b></div> <div> <B>To such conclusions jump.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>"Such epithets, like pepper,</b></div> <div> <B>Give zest to what you write;</b></div> <div> <B>And, if you strew them sparely,</b></div> <div> <B>They whet the appetite:</b></div> <div> <B>But if you lay them on too thick,</b></div> <div> <B>You spoil the matter quite!</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>"Last, as to the arrangement:</b></div> <div> <B>Your reader, you should show him,</b></div> <div> <B>Must take what information he</b></div> <div> <B>Can get, and look for no im</b></div> <div> <B>mature disclosure of the drift</b></div> <div> <B>And purpose of your poem.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>"Therefore to test his patience --</b></div> <div> <B>How much he can endure --</b></div> <div> <B>Mention no places, names, or dates,</b></div> <div> <B>And evermore be sure</b></div> <div> <B>Throughout the poem to be found</b></div> <div> <B>Consistently obscure.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>"First fix upon the limit</b></div> <div> <B>To which it shall extend:</b></div> <div> <B>Then fill it up with 'Padding'</b></div> <div> <B>(Beg some of any friend)</b></div> <div> <B>Your great SENSATION-STANZA</b></div> <div> <B>You place towards the end."</b></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="25d24240.gif" border=0 width="36" height="36" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>"And what is a Sensation,</b></div> <div> <B>Grandfather, tell me, pray?</b></div> <div> <B>I think I never heard the word</b></div> <div> <B>So used before to-day:</b></div> <div> <B>Be kind enough to mention one</b></div> <div> <B>'Exempli gratiâ'"</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>And the old man, looking sadly</b></div> <div> <B>Across the garden-lawn,</b></div> <div> <B>Where here and there a dew-drop</b></div> <div> <B>Yet glittered in the dawn,</b></div> <div> <B>Said "Go to the Adelphi,</b></div> <div> <B>And see the 'Colleen Bawn.'</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>"The word is due to Boucicault --</b></div> <div> <B>The theory is his,</b></div> <div> <B>Where Life becomes a Spasm,</b></div> <div> <B>And History a Whiz:</b></div> <div> <B>If that is not Sensation,</b></div> <div> <B>I don't know what it is,</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>"Now try your hand, ere Fancy</b></div> <div> <B>Have lost its present glow --"</b></div> <div> <B>"And then," his grandson added,</b></div> <div> <B>"We'll publish it, you know:</b></div> <div> <B>Green cloth -- gold-lettered at the back --</b></div> <div> <B>In duodecimo!"</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Then proudly smiled that old man</b></div> <div> <B>To see the eager lad</b></div> <div> <B>Rush madly for his pen and ink</b></div> <div> <B>And for his blotting-pad --</b></div> <div> <B>But, when he thought of publishing,</b></div> <div> <B>His face grew stern and sad. </b></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="25d24240.gif" border=0 width="36" height="36" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>---------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Sea </b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> </b></div> <div> <B>There are certain things -a spider, a ghost,</b></div> <div> <B>The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - </b></div> <div> <B>That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most</b></div> <div> <B>Is a thing they call the SEA.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Pour some salt water over the floor - </b></div> <div> <B>Ugly I'm sure you'll allow it to be:</b></div> <div> <B>Suppose it extended a mile or more,</b></div> <div> <B>That's very like the SEA.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Beat a dog till it howls outright - </b></div> <div> <B>Cruel, but all very well for a spree;</b></div> <div> <B>Suppose that one did so day and night,</b></div> <div> <B>That would be like the SEA.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>I had a vision of nursery-maids;</b></div> <div> <B>Tens of thousands passed by me - </b></div> <div> <B>All leading children with wooden spades,</b></div> <div> <B>And this was by the SEA.</b></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="25d24240.gif" border=0 width="36" height="36" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>Who invented those spades of wood?</b></div> <div> <B>Who was it cut them out of the tree?</b></div> <div> <B>None, I think, but an idiot could - </b></div> <div> <B>Or one that loved the SEA.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>It is pleasant and dreamy, no doubt, to float</b></div> <div> <B>With `thoughts as boundless, and souls as free';</b></div> <div> <B>But suppose you are very unwell in a boat,</b></div> <div> <B>How do you like the SEA.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>There is an insect that people avoid</b></div> <div> <B>(Whence is derived the verb `to flee')</b></div> <div> <B>Where have you been by it most annoyed?</b></div> <div> <B>In lodgings by the SEA.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>If you like coffee with sand for dregs,</b></div> <div> <B>A decided hint of salt in your tea,</b></div> <div> <B>And a fishy taste in the very eggs - </b></div> <div> <B>By all means choose the SEA.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>And if, with these dainties to drink and eat,</b></div> <div> <B>You prefer not a vestige of grass or tree,</b></div> <div> <B>And a chronic state of wet in your feet,</b></div> <div> <B>Then -I recommend the SEA.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>For I have friends who dwell by the coast,</b></div> <div> <B>Pleasant friends they are to me!</b></div> <div> <B>It is when I'm with them I wonder most</b></div> <div> <B>That anyone likes the SEA.</b></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="25d24240.gif" border=0 width="36" height="36" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>They take me a walk: though tired and stiff,</b></div> <div> <B>To climb the heights I madly agree:</b></div> <div> <B>And, after a tumble or so from the cliff,</b></div> <div> <B>They kindly suggest the SEA.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>I try the rocks, and I think it cool</b></div> <div> <B>That they laugh with such an excess of glee,</b></div> <div> <B>As I heavily slip into every pool,</b></div> <div> <B>That skirts the cold, cold SEA</b></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>----------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <div> <B> </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Little Birds </b></div> <div> <B> </b></div> <bR> <div> <B> </b></div> <div> <B>Little Birds are dining</b></div> <div> <B>Warily and well,</b></div> <div> <B>Hid in mossy cell:</b></div> <div> <B>Hid, I say, by waiters</b></div> <div> <B>Gorgeous in their gaiters -</b></div> <div> <B>I've a Tale to tell.</b></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="25d24240.gif" border=0 width="36" height="36" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>Little Birds are feeding</b></div> <div> <B>Justices with jam,</b></div> <div> <B>Rich in frizzled ham:</b></div> <div> <B>Rich, I say, in oysters</b></div> <div> <B>Haunting shady cloisters -</b></div> <div> <B>That is what I am.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Little Birds are teaching</b></div> <div> <B>Tigresses to smile,</b></div> <div> <B>Innocent of guile:</b></div> <div> <B>Smile, I say, not smirkle -</b></div> <div> <B>Mouth a semicircle,</b></div> <div> <B>That's the proper style!</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Little Birds are sleeping</b></div> <div> <B>All among the pins,</b></div> <div> <B>Where the loser wins:</b></div> <div> <B>Where, I say, he sneezes</b></div> <div> <B>When and how he pleases -</b></div> <div> <B>So the Tale begins.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Little Birds are writing</b></div> <div> <B>Interesting books,</b></div> <div> <B>To be read by cooks:</b></div> <div> <B>Read, I say, not roasted -</b></div> <div> <B>Letterpress, when toasted,</b></div> <div> <B>Loses its good looks.</b></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="25d24240.gif" border=0 width="36" height="36" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>Little Birds are playing</b></div> <div> <B>Bagpipes on the shore,</b></div> <div> <B>Where the tourists snore:</b></div> <div> <B>"Thanks!" they cry. "'Tis thrilling!</b></div> <div> <B>Take, oh take this shilling!</b></div> <div> <B>Let us have no more!"</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Little Birds are bathing</b></div> <div> <B>Crocodiles in cream,</b></div> <div> <B>Like a happy dream:</b></div> <div> <B>Like, but not so lasting -</b></div> <div> <B>Crocodiles, when fasting,</b></div> <div> <B>Are not all they seem!</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Little Birds are choking</b></div> <div> <B>Baronets with bun,</b></div> <div> <B>Taught to fire a gun:</b></div> <div> <B>Taught, I say, to splinter</b></div> <div> <B>Salmon in the winter -</b></div> <div> <B>Merely for the fun.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Little Birds are hiding</b></div> <div> <B>Crimes in carpet-bags,</b></div> <div> <B>Blessed by happy stags:</b></div> <div> <B>Blessed, I say, though beaten -</b></div> <div> <B>Since our friends are eaten</b></div> <div> <B>When the memory flags.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Little Birds are tasting</b></div> <div> <B>Gratitude and gold,</b></div> <div> <B>Pale with sudden cold:</b></div> <div> <B>Pale, I say, and wrinkled -</b></div> <div> <B>When the bells have tinkled,</b></div> <div> <B>And the Tale is told. </b></div> <div> <B>        </b></div> <bR> <div> <B> <img src="HTMLobj-284/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="98" height="60">  </b></div> </td> </tr></table></body>