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 More on the Edward Lear trail of Specialities
 And
now a small poem from India written over a
hundred and thirty
years ago.
Realizador: Shelly
wain
Categoria: Animação
País: Reino Unido
Duração:
3:21
Sinopse:
Based on the poem by Edward Lear. a
cat lady sits alone in the
jungle.strange creatures twitter and hum.suddenly a
warning cry is
heard "The Cummerbund is
come".
She sat
upon her Dobie,
To watch the Evening
Star,
And all the Punkahs as they
passed,
Cried, "My! how fair you are!
Around
her bower, with quivering leaves,
The tall
Kamsamahs grew,
And Kitmutgars in wild
festoons
Hung down from Tchokis
blue.
Below her
home the river rolled
With soft Meloobious
sound,
Where golden-finned Chuprassies
swam,
In myriads circling round.
Above, on
tallest trees remote
Green Ayahs perched
alone,
And all night long the Mussak
moan'd
Its melancholy tone.
And where the purple
Nullahs threw
Their branches far and
wide,
And silvery Goreewallahs flew
In
silence, side by side,
The little
Bheesties' flagrant air,
And of the angry
Jampan howled
Deep in his hateful
lair.
She sat upon her
Dobie,
She heard the Nimmak hum,
When all at
once a cry arose,
"The Cummerbund is
come!"
In vain she fled; - with open jaws
The
angry monster followed,
And so, ( before
assistance came,)
The Lady Fair was
swollowed.
They sought in vain for
even a bone
Respectfully to bury,
They said,
"Hers was a dreadful fate!
(And Echo answered
"Very."
They nailed her Dobie to the
wall,
Where last her form was seen,
And
underneath they wrote these words,
In
yellow, blue, and green:-
"Beware, ye Fair!
Ye Fair, beware!
Nor sit out late at night,
-
Lest horrid Cummerbunds should come,
And
swallow you outright.
Note. - First
published in Times of India, Bombay,
July, 1874.
By Edward
Lear.
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