There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket|His daughter named Nan|Ran away with a man|And as for the bucket, Nan took it.
A wonderful bird is the pelican
His bill will hold more than his belican|He can take in his beak|Enough food for a week|But I'm darned if I see how the helican.
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!"
There once was a writer named Lear
Whose limericks brought nothing but cheer|He'd write them by day|In a whimsical way|And his fame spread both far and near.
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?|Said the fly, "Let us flee!"|"Let us fly!" said the flea|So they flew through a flaw in the flue.