The Jumblies
Edward Lear
1812 to 1888
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And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree,
For they've been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone,
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
While round in our Sieve we spin!'
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In a Sieve they went to sea!
Far and few, far and few,
In twenty years or more,
They whistled and warbled a moony song
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
To the echoing sound of a coppery gong,
So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet
To a small tobacco-pipe mast;
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
And the hills of the Chankly Bore;
And every one cried, 'You'll all be drowned!'
They sailed away in a Sieve, they did,
And every one said, 'How tall they've grown!'
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong,
In a pinky paper all folded neat,
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Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Far and few, far and few,
In a Sieve they sailed so fast,
Far and few, far and few,
Far and few, far and few,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
'O Timballo! How happy we are,
And in twenty years they all came back,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
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And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
'O won't they be soon upset, you know!
Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long,
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And they went to sea in a Sieve.
And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,
And each of them said, 'How wise we are!
And they drank their health, and gave them a feast
And they bought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Far and few, far and few,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
In a Sieve to sail so fast!'
But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
And they passed the night in a crockery-jar,
In the shade of the mountains brown!'
Tied with a riband by way of a sail,
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
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We too will go to sea in a Sieve,—
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
And happen what may, it's extremely wrong
And they fastened it down with a pin.
Far and few, far and few,
With only a beautiful pea-green veil
For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long,
And everyone said, 'If we only live,
And no end of Stilton Cheese.
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
When we live in a sieve and a crockery-jar,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
The water it soon came in;
They sailed to the Western Sea, they did,
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
To a land all covered with trees,
And all night long in the moonlight pale,
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And every one said, who saw them go,
In spite of all their friends could say,
The water it soon came in, it did,
They called aloud, 'Our Sieve ain't big,
And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart,
We sail away with a pea-green sail,
In the shade of the mountains brown.
And a hive of silvery Bees.
Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And when the sun went down,
And all night long they sailed away;