No More Learning

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The Lively Learned Lobster,
who mended his own Clothes with
a Needle and Thread.

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The Melodious Meritorious Mouse,
who played a merry minuet on the
Piano-forte.

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The Nutritious Newt,
who purchased a Round Plum-pudding
for his grand-daughter.

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The Obsequious Ornamental Ostrich,
who wore Boots to keep his
feet quite dry.

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The Perpendicular Purple Polly,
who read the Newspaper and ate Parsnip Pie
with his Spectacles.

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The Queer Querulous Quail,
who smoked a Pipe of tobacco on the top of
a Tin Tea-kettle.

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The Rural Runcible Raven,
who wore a White Wig and flew away
with the Carpet Broom.

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The Scroobious Snake,
who always wore a Hat on his Head, for
fear he should bite anybody.

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The Tumultuous Tom-tommy Tortoise,
who beat a Drum all day long in the
middle of the wilderness.

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The Umbrageous Umbrella-maker,
whose Face nobody ever saw, because it was
always covered by his Umbrella.

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The Visibly Vicious Vulture,
who wrote some Verses to a Veal-cutlet in a
Volume bound in Vellum.

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The Worrying Whizzing Wasp,
who stood on a Table, and played sweetly on a
Flute with a Morning Cap.

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The Excellent Double-extra XX
imbibing King Xerxes, who lived a
long while ago.

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The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo,
whose Head was ever so much bigger than his
Body, and whose Hat was rather small.

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The Zigzag Zealous Zebra,
who carried five Monkeys on his back all
the way to Jellibolee.
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LAUGHABLE LYRICS

A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, etc.

by

EDWARD LEAR

Author of the _Book of Nonsense_, _More Nonsense_,
_Nonsense Songs, Stories_, etc. , etc.


With All the Original Illustrations.






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CONTENTS

LAUGHABLE LYRICS.
THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE
THE TWO OLD BACHELORS
THE PELICAN CHORUS
THE YONGHY-BONGHY-Bo
THE POBBLE WHO HAS NO TOES
THE NEW VESTMENTS
MR. AND MRS. DISCOBBOLOS
THE QUANGLE WANGLE'S HAT
THE CUMMERBUND
THE AKOND OF SWAT

NONSENSE BOTANY

" ALPHABET, No. 5
" " No. 6

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LAUGHABLE LYRICS.


THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE.

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When awful darkness and silence reign
Over the great Gromboolian plain,
Through the long, long wintry nights;
When the angry breakers roar
As they beat on the rocky shore;
When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore,--

Then, through the vast and gloomy dark
There moves what seems a fiery spark,--
A lonely spark with silvery rays
Piercing the coal-black night,--
A Meteor strange and bright:
Hither and thither the vision strays,
A single lurid light.

Slowly it wanders, pauses, creeps,--
Anon it sparkles, flashes, and leaps;
And ever as onward it gleaming goes
A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
And those who watch at that midnight hour
From Hall or Terrace or lofty Tower,
Cry, as the wild light passes along,--
"The Dong! the Dong!
The wandering Dong through the forest goes!