He Lived At Dingle Bank Poem by Edward Lear

He Lived At Dingle Bank

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He lived at Dingle Bank - he did; -
He lived at Dingle Bank;
And in his garden was one Quail,
Four tulips and a Tank:
And from his window he could see
The otion and the River Dee.

His house stood on a Cliff, - it did,
Its aspic it was cool;
And many thousand little boys
Resorted to his school,
Where if of progress they could boast
He gave them heaps of buttered toast.

But he grew rabid-wroth, he did,
If they neglected books,
And dragged them to adjacent Cliffs
With beastly Button Hooks,
And there with fatuous glee he threw
Them down into the ocean blue.

And in the sea they sway, they did, -
All playfully about,
And some eventually became
Sponges, or speckled trout: -
But Liverpool doth all bewail
Their Fate; - likewise his Garden Quail.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Bernard F. Asuncion 25 December 2018

A well crafted imaginative poem by Edward Lear.......

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Tom Allport 25 December 2018

A poem full of imagination that ultimately ends in scouse disappointment? .....wonderfully penned

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Adrian Flett 25 December 2018

The master of nonsense.

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Edward Kofi Louis 25 December 2018

In the sea they sway! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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* Sunprincess * 07 February 2016

............very nice and wonderfully poetic ★

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