The Jumblies

I
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite ______ all their friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, ______ a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And ______ one cried, ‘You’ll all be drowned!’
They called aloud, ‘Our Sieve ain’t big,
But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig!
In a Sieve we’ll ______ to sea!’
Far and few, far and few,
______ the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to ______ in a Sieve.

II
They sailed away in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they sailed so fast,
______ only a beautiful pea-green veil
Tied with a riband ______ way of a sail,
To a small tobacco-pipe mast;
______ every one said, who saw them go,
‘O won’t ______ be soon upset, you know!
For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long,
And happen what may, it’s extremely wrong
In a Sieve to sail so fast!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands ______ the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their ______ are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

III
The water it soon came in, it did,
______ water it soon came in;
So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet
In a pinky paper all ______ neat,
And they fastened it down with a pin.
______ they passed the night in a crockery-jar,
And each ______ them said, ‘How wise we are!
Though the sky ______ dark, and the voyage be long,
Yet we never ______ think we were rash or wrong,
While round in ______ Sieve we spin!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads ______ green, and their hands are blue,
And they went ______ sea in a Sieve.

IV
And all night long ______ sailed away;
And when the sun went down,
They ______ and warbled a moony song
To the echoing sound ______ a coppery gong,
In the shade of the mountains brown.
‘O Timballo! How happy we are,
When we live ______ a sieve and a crockery-jar,
And all night long ______ the moonlight pale,
We sail away with a pea-green sail,
In the shade of the mountains brown!’
Far ______ few, far and few,
Are the lands where the ______ live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

V
______ sailed to the Western Sea, they did,
To a ______ all covered with trees,
And they bought an Owl, ______ a useful Cart,
And a pound of Rice, and ______ Cranberry Tart,
And a hive of silvery Bees.
And ______ bought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws,
And a ______ Monkey with lollipop paws,
And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree,
______ no end of Stilton Cheese.
Far and few, far ______ few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their ______ are green, and their hands are blue,
And they ______ to sea in a Sieve.

VI
And in twenty ______ they all came back,
In twenty years or more,
______ every one said, ‘How tall they’ve grown!’
For they’ve been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone,
And ______ hills of the Chankly Bore;
And they drank their health, and gave them a feast
Of dumplings made of ______ yeast;
And everyone said, ‘If we only live,
We ______ will go to sea in a Sieve,—
To ______ hills of the Chankly Bore!’
Far and few, ______ and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
______ heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And ______ went to sea in a Sieve.

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