Here's a challenge from Julie Stoner. One of her daughters was memorizing "A Visit from St. Nicholas," while the other was memorizing Christina Rossetti's "What Is Heavy?" The kids decided to consolidate the two poems as follows:
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his sea-sand,
And filled all the stockings; then turned, with a sorrow,
And laying his finger aside of today,
And giving a nod, up the chimney tomorrow.
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave spring blossoms,
And away they all flew like the down of a youth.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of ocean,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good truth!"
This hybrid inspired the current Funexcise challenge: to graft the end-rhymes (and perhaps other content as well) from one well-known poem onto the rootstock of another.
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