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

The ostrich roams the great Sahar… Its mouth is wide, its neck is nar… It has such long and lofty legs, I’m glad it sits to lay its eggs.

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

They tell me that euphoria is the… well, today I feel euphorian, Today I have the agility of a Gre… Victorian. Yes, today I may even go forth wi…

I would live all my life in noncha… Were it not for making a living, w…

Affection is a noble quality; It leads to generosity and jollity… But it also leads to breach of pro… If you go around lavishing it on r…

May I join you in the doghouse, R… I wish to retire till the party’s… Since three o’clock I’ve done my… To entertain each tiny guest; My conscience now I’ve left behin…

So Thomas Edison Never drank his medicine; So Blackstone and Hoyle Refused cod-liver oil; So Sir Thomas Malory

The solitary huntsman No coat of pink doth wear, But midnight black from cap to spu… Upon his midnight mare. He drones a tuneless jingle

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.

One would be in less danger From the wiles of a stranger If one’s own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

Cuckoos lead Bohemian lives, They fail as husbands and as wives… Therefore they cynically disparage Everybody else’s marriage.

A child need not be very clever To learn that “Later, dear” means…

I objurgate the centipede, A bug we do not really need. At sleepy-time he beats a path Straight to the bedroom or the bat… You always wallop where he’s not,

Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks. It is specially fond