Roald Dahl Poems

'If you are old and have the shakes,
If all your bones are full of aches,
If you can hardly walk at all,
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
'I live with my brat in a high-rise flat,
So how in the world would I know.'
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Down they go!
Hail and snow!
Freezes and sneezes and noses will blow!
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Round the world and home again
That's the sailor's way
Faster faster, faster faster
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There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction they are going!
There's no knowing where they're rowing,
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'Veruca Salt, the little brute,
Has just gone down the garbage chute,
(And as we very rightly thought
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Oh you Knid, you are vile and vermicious!
You are slimy and soggy and squishous!
But what do we care
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