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3rd April

The Jumblies by Edward Lear

Along with Lewis Carroll, Lear was a prolific writer of nonsense verse and was the inventor of the limerick. The Jumblies is perhaps his most inventive and madcap poem. The first and last stanzas of his long tale of the travels of these strange creatures follows below.

from The Jumblies, a ballet by John Craton

The Jumblies

I

They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,

In a Sieve they went to sea:

In spite of all their friends could say,

On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,

In a Sieve they went to sea!

And when the Sieve turned round and round,

And every one cried, ‘You’ll all be drowned!’

They called aloud, ‘Our Sieve ain’t big,

But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig!

In a Sieve we’ll go to sea!’

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.

VI

And in twenty years they all came back,

In twenty years or more,

And every one said, ‘How tall they’ve grown!’

For they’ve been to the Lakes and the Torrible Zone,

And the hills of the Chankly Bore;

And they drank their health, and gave them a feast

Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast;

And every one said, ‘If we only live,

We too will go to sea in a Sieve, -

To the hills of the Chankly Bore!’

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.

Although Lear was a poet, author, musician and illustrator, it is for his nonsense verse that he is best known.

"I passed by his garden and marked, with one eye,

How the owl and the oyster were sharing a pie,

While the duck and the Dodo, the lizard and cat

Were swimming in milk around the brim of a hat"

- an unused stanza from Lewis Carroll's parody poem, "Tis the voice of the Lobster" in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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I see so probably best not to use souls for rituals then

Can I have your soul for my occult ritual?

I promise to give it back when I’m done

You can try but I'm not sure if it'll work. Most rituals that require a soul stipulate that it needs to be a virgin soul (a soul that hasn't been used in a ritual before) and unfortunately mine has been used in a ritual about four years ago to make people forget my deadname, so I don't know if it'll be much of use. :\

Okay but soul reusability? Can a soul be used more than once?

Can I have your soul for my occult ritual?

I promise to give it back when I’m done

You can try but I'm not sure if it'll work. Most rituals that require a soul stipulate that it needs to be a virgin soul (a soul that hasn't been used in a ritual before) and unfortunately mine has been used in a ritual about four years ago to make people forget my deadname, so I don't know if it'll be much of use. :\

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