Say not the mermaid is a myth,
I knew one once named Mrs. Smith.
She stood while playing cards or
knitting;
Mermaids are not equipped for sitting.
THE
OCTOPUS
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus:
If I were thou, I'd call me Us.
THE
PORPOISE
I kind
of like the playful porpoise,
A healthy mind in a healthy corpus.
He and his cousin, the playful dolphin,
Why they like swimmin like I like
golphin.
THE EEL
I
don't mind eels
Except as meals,
And the way they feels.
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THE
JELLYFISH
Who wants my jellyfish?
I'm not sellyfish! |
THE SHARK
How many scientists have written
Yet this I know about the shark:
His bite is worser than his bark.
Other Nash Verse
on
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THE SEA-GULL
THE FLY