There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.
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Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live Their heads are green and their hands are blue And they went to sea in a sieve.
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They went to sea in a sieve, they did In a sieve they went to sea In spite of all their friends could say.
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Is he wise or foolish, young or old?
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