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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354738" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Walloping Window Blind</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A capital ship for an ocean trip <br>Was the Walloping Window Blind. <br>No gale that blew dismayed her crew <br>Or troubled the captain's mind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man at the wheel was taught to feel <br>Contempt for the wildest blow. <br>And it often appeared when the weather had cleared <br>That he'd been in his bunk below. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boatswain's mate was very sedate, <br>Yet fond of amusement too; <br>And he played hopscotch with the starboard watch <br>While the captain tickled the crew. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the gunner we had was apparently mad <br>For he stood on the cannon's tail, <br>And fired salutes in the captain's boots <br>In the teeth of a booming gale. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The captain sat in a commodore's hat <br>And dined in a royal way <br>On toasted pigs and pickles and figs <br>And gummery bread each day. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the rest of us ate from an odious plate <br>For the food that was given the crew <br>Was a number of tons of hot cross buns <br>Chopped up with sugar and glue. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We all felt ill as mariners will <br>On a diet that's cheap and rude, <br>And the poop deck shook when we dipped the cook <br>In a tub of his gluesome food. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then nautical pride we laid aside, <br>And we cast the vessel ashore <br>On the Gulliby Isles, where the Poohpooh smiles <br>And the Anagzanders roar. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Composed of sand was that favored land <br>And trimmed in cinnamon straws; <br>And pink and blue was the pleasing hue <br>Of the Tickletoeteasers claws. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We climbed to the edge of a sandy ledge <br>And soared with the whistling bee, <br>And we only stopped at four o'clock <br>For a pot of cinnamon tea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">From dawn to dark, on rubagub bark <br>We fed, till we all had grown <br>Uncommonly thin. Then a boat blew in <br>On a wind from the torriby zone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was stubby and square, but we didn't much care, <br>And we cheerily put to sea. <br>We plotted a course for the Land of Blue Horse, <br>Due west 'cross the Peppermint Sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Edward+Carryl">Charles Edward Carryl</a><div class=q>
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Was the Walloping Window Blind. 
No gale that blew dismayed her crew 
Or troubled the captain's mind. 

The man at the wheel was taught to feel 
Contempt for the wildest blow. 
And it often appeared when the weath..."></div>
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