[F.F. Teague]

Hooray!

(Hope I'm posting in the right place.)

[Roger Slater]

The lost limerick is pretty bad, though. Let's hope the other poem is more like the Jumblies than the limericks.

[F.F. Teague]

Roger, I quite like the limerick, especially for the dramatic ending! I do love the Jumblies, though.

There's a lot more information about the discovery here <(:-)

[John Isbell]

Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live -

what a haunting, mysterious opening that is!
And apparently quite unrelated to what follows, which of course reads:

Their heads are green and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a sieve, they did,
They went to sea in a sieve.

Perhaps that mystery will never be solved!


Regards,
John

[F.F. Teague]

I think I've posted this video before, but I can't help myself; I love it!

I don't know, John. It kind of makes sense to me. The lands are mysterious; the Jumblies are mysterious. Mysterious and magical <(:-)

Best wishes,
Fliss

[Roger Slater]

John, that's not actually the opening. It's the four lines that conclude each section. The opening of the poem begins:

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!