NG
IA
EE
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
IA doubled the knee,
They were once on a far larger scale,
But he'd eaten the balance, you see("Scale" and "balance" is punning, you see).
There was haughty
AH,
There was lumbering
EY,
Despairing
EY-AH,
And good little
EH -Exemplary
EH.
One day there was grief in the crew,
For they hadn't a morsel of meat,
And
IA
EE
Was dying for something to eat -"Come, provide me with something to
EY, famished I feel;
Oh, good little
EH,
Where on earth shall I look for a meal?
For I haven't no dinner to-day! -Not a morsel of dinner to-day!"Dear
UM, what shall we do?
Come, get us a meal, or, in truth,
If you don't, we shall have to eat you,
Oh, adorable friend of our youth!
Thou beloved little friend of our youth!"And he answered, "Oh,
EE
OO,
For a moment I hope you will wait,
TY
Is the Queen of a neighbouring state -A remarkably neighbouring
TY
OO,
She would pickle deliciously cold -And her four pretty Amazons, too,
Are enticing, and not very old -Twenty-seven is not very old."There is neat little
EH,
There is rollicking
AH,
There is jocular
EH,
There is musical
AH -There's the nightingale
AH!"So the forces of
EE
Marched forth in a terrible row,
And the ladies who fought for
EN
Prepared to encounter the foe -This dreadful, insatiate foe!
But they sharpened no weapons at all,
And they poisoned no arrows - not they!
They made ready to conquer or
In a totally different way -An entirely different way.
With a crimson and pearly-white
They endeavoured to make themselves fair,
With black they encircled each eye,
And with yellow they painted their hair(It was wool, but they thought it was hair).
And the forces they met in the field:-And the men of
NG
IA said,"Amazonians, immediately yield!"And their arrows they drew to the head -Yes, drew them right up to the head.
But jocular
Ogled
EY (which was wrong),
And neat little
Said,
UM, you go along!
You naughty old dear, go along!"And rollicking
Tapped
EY-AH with her fan;
And musical
Said,
SH, go away, you bad man!
Go away, you delightful young man!"And the Amazons simpered and sighed,
And they ogled, and giggled, and flushed,
And they opened their pretty eyes wide,
And they chuckled, and flirted, and blushed(At least, if they could, they'd have blushed).
But haughty
Said,
EY, what does this mean?"And despairing
Said, "They think us uncommonly green!
Ha! ha! most uncommonly green!"Even blundering
Was insensible quite to their leers,
And said good little
EH,"It's your blood we desire, pretty dears -We have come for our dinners, my dears!"And the Queen of the Amazons
To
IA
EE
OO, -In a mouthful he gulped, with a yell,
TY
OO -The pretty
EN
OO.
And neat little
Was eaten by
AH,
And light-hearted
By dismal
EY-AH -Despairing
EY-AH.
And rollicking
Was eaten by
EY,
And musical
By good little
EH -Exemplary
EH!
