"And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand..." Topic

That's how a piece of spam that I received this evening began. Here's the rest of it:

And your jug without a handle,
-O Timballoo! How happy we are
-When she was good

Then comes the link, which I won't replicate here. It ends with the following:

To a land all covered with trees
-Iron and steel, iron and steel

I just might steal these lines and create a poem of my own. I mean, what can they do to me if I did? Sue me?! I DARE them, the swine!

Well, Edward Lear beat you to it by just a few years, I'm afraid.

His work may be admired here:

link

Which probably only shows that the Nigerian oil ministers were active even before their country existed. That, my friends, is business planning!

there are a pile of limericks oat that link if you scroll down enough, I did not see the one about the young man from nantucket though….