28. Scramble

by Jack Prelutsky

If the zebra were given the spots of the leopard

and the leopard the spots of the zebra

then the leopard would have to be renamed the zeopard,

and the zebra retitled the lebra.

And wouldn't we laugh if the gentle giraffe

swapped his neck for the hump on the camel?

For the camel would henceforth be called the camaffe,

the giraffe designated giramel.

It would be very funny, if the ears of the bunny

were exchanged for the horns of the sheep.

For the sheep would then surely be known as the shunny,

and the bunny quite simply the beep.

[ei]

29. Spring Rain

Anonymous

Rain, rain, rain, April rain,

You are feeding seed and grain,

You are raising plants and crops

With your gaily sparkling drops.

30. The Unwinged Ones

by Ogden Nash

I don't travel on planes.

I travel on trains.

Once in a while, on trains,

I see people who travel on planes.

Every once in a while I'm surrounded

By people whose planes have been grounded

They feel that they have to explain

How they happen to be on a train.

They grumble and fume about how

They'd have been in Miami by now.

By the time that they're passing through Rahway

They should be in Havana or Norway,

And they strongly imply that perhaps,

Since they're late, the world will collapse.

Sometimes on the train I'm surrounded

By people whose planes have been grounded.

That's the trouble with trains:

When it fogs, when it smogs, when it rains.

You get people from planes.

[ai]

31. Dream Song

by Walter de la Mare

Sunlight, moonlight —

Twilight, starlight —

Lanternlight, taper-light,

Torchlight, no-light:

Elf-light, bat-Hght,

Touchwood-light, and toad-Hght.

And the sea ashimmering gloom of grey,

And a small face smiling

In a dream's beguiling

In a world of wonders far away.

2. The Lion

by Ogden Nash

Oh, weep for Mr. and Mrs. Bryan!

He was eaten by a lion,

Following which, the lion's lioness

Up and swallowed Bryan's Bryaness.

[oi]

32. by Lewis Carroll

Said the Crab unto the Oyster

Do not loiter in this cloister,

Jain me in a voyage rare,

Up into the moist salt air.

Noise and turmoil would annoy me,

Toil and trouble, too would cloy me,

Should 1 leave this royal cloister

Adroitly rejoined the oyster.

33. Take me Back to Toy land

Song

Please take me back to Toyland,

E'vryone's happy there.

It's more than a girl and boy land,

Where dreams, just like toys, can be shared.

If you believe in Toyland,

Believe in things that you cannot see;

All the world would become a Joy land,

What a wonderful world this would be!

[au]

34. Primer Lesson

by Carl Sandburg

Look out how you use proud words,

When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call

them back.

They walk off proud; they can't hear you calling —

Look out how you use proud words.

[әu]

35. by Rudyard Kipling

Yes, weekly from Southampton

Great steamers, white and. gold,

Go rolling down to Rio

(Roll down-roll down to Rio!)

And I'd like to roll to Rio

Some days before I'm old! I've never seen a Jaguar,

Nor yet an Armadil

О dilloing in his armour,

And I s'pose I never will,

Unless I go to Rio

These wonders to behold —

Roll down-roll down to Rio —

Roll really down to Rio!

Oh, I'd love to roll to Rio

Some day before I'm oldl