Edward Lear: Quotes about the sea

Edward Lear was British artist, illustrator, author and poet. Explore interesting quotes on sea.
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“They went to sea in a sieve, they did;
In a sieve they went to sea;
In spite of all their friends could say.”

Edward Lear

" The Jumblies http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html", st. 1, in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871).

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“Calico Jam,
The little Fish swam,
Over the syllabub sea,
He took off his hat,
To the Sole and the Sprat,
And the Willeby-Wat,—
But he never came back to me!”

Edward Lear

Calico Pie, st. 2.

Fish , 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.”

Edward Lear

" The Jumblies http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html", st. 1, in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871).

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