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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538957" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>King Borria Bungalee Boo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">KING BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO<br>Was a man-eating African swell;<br>His sigh was a hullaballoo,<br>His whisper a horrible yell -<br>A horrible, horrible yell!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Four subjects, and all of them male,<br>To BORRIA doubled the knee,<br>They were once on a far larger scale,<br>But he'd eaten the balance, you see<br>('Scale' and 'balance' is punning, you see).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was haughty PISH-TUSH-POOH-BAH,<br>There was lumbering DOODLE-DUM-DEY,<br>Despairing ALACK-A-DEY-AH,<br>And good little TOOTLE-TUM-TEH -<br>Exemplary TOOTLE-TUM-TEH.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One day there was grief in the crew,<br>For they hadn't a morsel of meat,<br>And BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO<br>Was dying for something to eat -<br>'Come, provide me with something to eat!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'ALACK-A-DEY, famished I feel;<br>Oh, good little TOOTLE-TUM-TEH,<br>Where on earth shall I look for a meal?<br>For I haven't no dinner to-day! -<br>Not a morsel of dinner to-day!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Dear TOOTLE-TUM, what shall we do?<br>Come, get us a meal, or, in truth,<br>If you don't, we shall have to eat you,<br>Oh, adorable friend of our youth!<br>Thou beloved little friend of our youth!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he answered, 'Oh, BUNGALEE BOO,<br>For a moment I hope you will wait, -<br>TIPPY-WIPPITY TOL-THE-ROL-LOO<br>Is the Queen of a neighbouring state -<br>A remarkably neighbouring state.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'TIPPY-WIPPITY TOL-THE-ROL-LOO,<br>She would pickle deliciously cold -<br>And her four pretty Amazons, too,<br>Are enticing, and not very old -<br>Twenty-seven is not very old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There is neat little TITTY-FOL-LEH,<br>There is rollicking TRAL-THE-RAL-LAH,<br>There is jocular WAGGETY-WEH,<br>There is musical DOH-REH-MI-FAH -<br>There's the nightingale DOH-REH-MI-FAH!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the forces of BUNGALEE BOO<br>Marched forth in a terrible row,<br>And the ladies who fought for QUEEN LOO<br>Prepared to encounter the foe -<br>This dreadful, insatiate foe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But they sharpened no weapons at all,<br>And they poisoned no arrows - not they!<br>They made ready to conquer or fall<br>In a totally different way -<br>An entirely different way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a crimson and pearly-white dye<br>They endeavoured to make themselves fair,<br>With black they encircled each eye,<br>And with yellow they painted their hair<br>(It was wool, but they thought it was hair).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the forces they met in the field:-<br>And the men of KING BORRIA said,<br>'Amazonians, immediately yield!'<br>And their arrows they drew to the head -<br>Yes, drew them right up to the head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But jocular WAGGETY-WEH<br>Ogled DOODLE-DUM-DEY (which was wrong),<br>And neat little TITTY-FOL-LEH<br>Said, 'TOOTLE-TUM, you go along!<br>You naughty old dear, go along!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And rollicking TRAL-THE-RAL-LAH<br>Tapped ALACK-A-DEY-AH with her fan;<br>And musical DOH-REH-MI-FAH<br>Said, 'PISH, go away, you bad man!<br>Go away, you delightful young man!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the Amazons simpered and sighed,<br>And they ogled, and giggled, and flushed,<br>And they opened their pretty eyes wide,<br>And they chuckled, and flirted, and blushed<br>(At least, if they could, they'd have blushed).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But haughty PISH-TUSH-POOH-BAH<br>Said, 'ALACK-A-DEY, what does this mean?'<br>And despairing ALACK-A-DEY-AH<br>Said, 'They think us uncommonly green!<br>Ha! ha! most uncommonly green!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even blundering DOODLE-DUM-DEY<br>Was insensible quite to their leers,<br>And said good little TOOTLE-TUM-TEH,<br>'It's your blood we desire, pretty dears -<br>We have come for our dinners, my dears!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the Queen of the Amazons fell<br>To BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO, -<br>In a mouthful he gulped, with a yell,<br>TIPPY-WIPPITY TOL-THE-ROL-LOO -<br>The pretty QUEEN TOL-THE-ROL-LOO.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And neat little TITTY-FOL-LEH<br>Was eaten by PISH-POOH-BAH,<br>And light-hearted WAGGETY-WEH<br>By dismal ALACK-A-DEY-AH -<br>Despairing ALACK-A-DEY-AH.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And rollicking TRAL-THE-RAL-LAH<br>Was eaten by DOODLE-DUM-DEY,<br>And musical DOH-REH-MI-FAH<br>By good little TOOTLE-DUM-TEH -<br>Exemplary TOOTLE-TUM-TEH!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</a><div class=q>
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Was a man-eating African swell;
His sigh was a hullaballoo,
His whisper a horrible yell -
A horrible, horrible yell!

Four subjects, and all of them male,
To BORRIA doubled the knee,
They were once on a far larger scale,
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