<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381143" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Jumblies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, <br>In a Sieve they went to sea: <br>In spite of all their friends could say, <br>On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, <br>In a Sieve they went to sea! <br>And when the Sieve turned round and round, <br>And every one cried, `You'll all be drowned!' <br>They called aloud, `Our Sieve ain't big, <br>But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig! <br>In a Sieve we'll go to sea!' <br>Far and few, far and few, <br>Are the lands where the Jumblies live; <br>Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, <br>And they went to sea in a Sieve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They sailed away in a Sieve, they did, <br>In a Sieve they sailed so fast, <br>With only a beautiful pea-green veil <br>Tied with a riband by way of a sail, <br>To a small tobacco-pipe mast; <br>And every one said, who saw them go, <br>`O won't they be soon upset, you know! <br>For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long, <br>And happen what may, it's extremely wrong <br>In a Sieve to sail so fast!' <br>Far and few, far and few, <br>Are the lands where the Jumblies live; <br>Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, <br>And they went to sea in a Sieve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The water it soon came in, it did, <br>The water it soon came in; <br>So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet <br>In a pinky paper all folded neat, <br>And they fastened it down with a pin. <br>And they passed the night in a crockery-jar, <br>And each of them said, `How wise we are! <br>Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long, <br>Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong, <br>While round in our Sieve we spin!' <br>Far and few, far and few, <br>Are the lands where the Jumblies live; <br>Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, <br>And they went to sea in a Sieve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all night long they sailed away; <br>And when the sun went down, <br>They whistled and warbled a moony song <br>To the echoing sound of a coppery gong, <br>In the shade of the mountains brown. <br>`O Timballo! How happy we are, <br>When we live in a Sieve and a crockery-jar, <br>And all night long in the moonlight pale, <br>We sail away with a pea-green sail, <br>In the shade of the mountains brown!' <br>Far and few, far and few, <br>Are the lands where the Jumblies live; <br>Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, <br>And they went to sea in a Sieve. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They sailed to the Western Sea, they did, <br>To a land all covered with trees, <br>And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart, <br>And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart, <br>And a hive of silvery Bees. <br>And they bought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, <br>And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, <br>And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, <br>And no end of Stilton Cheese. <br>Far and few, far and few, <br>Are the lands where the Jumblies live; <br>Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, <br>And they went to sea in a Sieve. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in twenty years they all came back, <br>In twenty years or more, <br>And every one said, `How tall they've grown! <br>For they've been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone, <br>And the hills of the Chankly Bore!' <br>And they drank their health, and gave them a feast <br>Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast; <br>And every one said, `If we only live, <br>We too will go to sea in a Sieve,--- <br>To the hills of the Chankly Bore!' <br>Far and few, far and few, <br>Are the lands where the Jumblies live; <br>Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, <br>And they went to sea in a Sieve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+Lear">Edward Lear</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381143" data-title="The Jumblies de Edward Lear" data-description="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 every one cried, `Y..."></div> </div> </div>

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