<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416811" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lugubrious Whing-Whang</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rhyme o' The Raggedy Man's 'at's best<br>Is Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs,--<br>'Cause that-un's the strangest of all o' the rest,<br>An' the worst to learn, an' the last one guessed,<br>An' the funniest one, an' the foolishest.--<br>Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't know what in the world it means--<br>Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs!--<br>An' nen when I _tell_ him I don't, he leans<br>Like he was a-grindin' on some machines<br>An' says: Ef I _don't_, w'y, I don't know _beans!_<br>Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs!--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out on the margin of Moonshine Land,<br>Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs!<br>Out where the Whing-Whang loves to stand,<br>Writing his name with his tail in the sand,<br>And swiping it out with his oogerish hand;<br>Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it the gibber of Gungs or Keeks?<br>Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs!<br>Or what _is_ the sound that the Whing-Whang seeks?--<br>Crouching low by the winding creeks<br>And holding his breath for weeks and weeks!<br>Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aroint him the wraithest of wraithly things!<br>Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs!<br>'Tis a fair Whing-Whangess, with phosphor rings<br>And bridal-jewels of fangs and stings;<br>And she sits and as sadly and softly sings<br>As the mildewed whir of her own dead wings,--<br>Tickle me, Dear,<br>Tickle me here,<br>Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</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=416811" data-title="The Lugubrious Whing-Whang de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="The rhyme o' The Raggedy Man's 'at's best Is Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs,-- 'Cause that-un's the strangest of all o' the rest, An' the worst to learn, an' the last one guessed, An' the funniest one, an' the foolishest.-- Tickle me, Lov..."></div> </div> </div>

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