The wasp and all his numerous fami… I look upon as a major calamity. He throws open his nest with prodi… But I distrust his waspitality.

The rhino is a homely beast, For human eyes he’s not a feast. Farwell, farewell, you old rhinoce… I’ll stare at something less prepo…

The summer like a rajah dies, And every widowed tree Kindles for Congregationalist eye… An alien suttee.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn; So many I loved were not yet dead… So many I love were not yet born.

The song of canaries Never varies, And when they’re moulting They’re pretty revolting.

As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven lives; Seven lives, In seven sacks, Like seven beeves

The hands of the clock were reachi… In an old midtown hotel; I name no name, but its sordid fam… Is table talk in hell. I name no name, but hell’s own fla…

Whales have calves, Cats have kittens, Bears have cubs, Bats have bittens, Swans have cygnets,

There was a young belle of Natche… Whose garments were always in patc… When comment arose On the state of her clothes, She drawled, When Ah itchez, Ah…

I test my bath before I sit, And I’m always moved to wondermen… That what chills the finger not a… Is so frigid upon the fundament.

I give you now Professor Twist, A conscientious scientist, Trustees exclaimed, “He never bun… And sent him off to distant jungle… Camped on a tropic riverside,

O Duty, Why hast thou not the visage of a… Why displayest thou the countenanc… conscientious organizing spinster That the minute you see her you ar…

Husbands are things that wives hav… And with whom they breakfast with… They interfere with the discipline… And forget anniversaries, And when they have been particular…

Behold the hippopotamus! We laugh at how he looks to us, And yet in moments dank and grim, I wonder how we look to him. Peace, peace, thou hippopotamus!