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 They went to sea in a sieve they did, they went to sea in a sieve, all on Riddle me ree.
centreTHEY WENT TO
SEA IN A SIEVE
They went to sea in
a sieve, they did, in a sieve they went to
sea;
In spite of all their friends could
say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In
a sieve they went to sea!
And when the sieve
turned round and round,
And everyone cried,
"You'll all be drowned!"
They cried aloud, " Our
sieve ain't big,
But we don't care a button, we
don't care a fig!
In a sieve we'll go to
sea
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands
where the Jumblies live; their heads are
green
And their hands are blue, and they went to
sea in a sieve.
The water it soon came in,
it did, the water it soon came in;
So to keep
them dry they wrapped their feet,
In a pinky
paper all folded and neat, and they fastened it
down with a pin.
And they passed the night in a
crockery jar,
And each of them said, "How wise
we are!
Though the sky be dark and the voyage be
long,
Yet we never can think we were rash, or
wrong
While round in our sieve we
spin!"
They sailed to the Western sea they
did, to a land all covered with trees.
And they
bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,
And a pound of
Rice and a Cranberry Tart, and a hive of Silvery
Bees.
And they bought a Pig, and some Green
Jackdaws,
And a lovely Monkey with Lollipop
Paws,
And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree,
And
no end of Stilton Cheese.
And in twenty
years they all came back, in twenty years or
more,
And everyone said, "How tall they've
grown!"
For they've been to the lakes
And the
Torrible Zone, and the hills of the Chankly
Bore!"
And they drank their health, and gave
them a feast;
Of dumplings made of beautiful
Yeast;
And everyone said, "If only we live, we
too will go to sea in a Sieve
To the hills of
the Chankly Bore!"
Far and few, far and
few, are the lands where the Jumblies
live;
Their heds ar green and their hands are
blue
And they went to sea in a sieve.
By the One, and Only, Mr Edward Lear.
there are
quite a few more verses to tis, too many to put on
here, but should anyone want the whole poem I have
it along with very many E. Lears.
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