“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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