Saturday - October 25, 2008
MORE FUN AND IT’S THE ONLY ONE I EVER LEARNED.
Not even 8am on Sat. morning and I’m doing this? LOL. I’d have been an hour or two earlier, but I was reading Drew’s offering. Whew ... break time.
So here’s my humble but cute contribution. The first and only poem and or rhyme I ever managed to memorize in school more then 60 yrs ago.
Ah ... BMEWS starts my 2nd childhood I guess.
Wallace Irwin
The most chivalrous fish of the ocean,
To ladies forbearing and mild,
Though his record be dark
Is the man-eating shark
Who will eat neither woman nor child.
He dines upon seamen and skippers,
And tourists his hunger assuage,
And a fresh cabin boy
Will inspire him with joy
If he’s past the maturity age.
A doctor, a lawyer, a preacher,
He’ll gobble one any fine day,
But the ladies, God bless ‘em.
He’ll only address ‘em
Politely and go on his way.
l can readily cite you an instance
Where a lovely young lady of Breem,
Who was tender and sweet
And delicious to eat,
Fell into the bay with a scream.
She struggled and flounced in the water
And signaled in vain for her bark,
And she’d surely been drowned
If she hadn’t been found
By a chivalrous man-eating shark.
He bowed in a manner most polished.
Thus soothing her impulses wild:
“Don’t be frightened,” he said,
I’ve been properly bred
And I eat neither woman nor child.”
Then he proffered his fin and she took it-
While the passengers cheered
As the vessel they neared
And a broadside was fired in salute.
And they soon stood alongside the vessel,
When a life-saving dinghy was lowered
With the pick of the crew,
And her relatives too,
And the mate and the skipper aboard.
So they took her aboard in a jiffy
And the shark stood at attention the while,
Then he raised on his flipper
And ate up the skipper
And went on his way with a smile.
And this shows that the prince of the ocean,
To ladies forbearing and mild,
Though his record be dark,
Is the man-eating shark
Who will eat neither woman nor child
Reprinted in Song Fest by Dick and Beth Best
from Nautical Lays of a Landsman by Wallace Irwin
@fish @animal
Copyright 1904 Wallace Irwin
SOF
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