English poem
Something Like Nonsense Verses
I saw a red-haired Jew from Aberdeen, In a gaberdine, At the Tabard Inn, He wore a sword which was its scabbard in, On a Wednesday!
I saw MR. BIG BEN DENISON, Ask a benison On some venison, Which he bought of ALFRED TENNYSON, On a Wednesday.
I beg to state I love a yaller miss, Born at Salamis, And this gal, or miss, Bound to meet me down at Balham is, Every Wednesday!
A worthy Independent minister, Born at Finisterre, Turning sinister, Smothered his wife with fumes of kinaster On a Wednesday!
Once I married a cook from charity, But disparity, And hair carrotty, Made me treat her with barbarity Every Wednesday!
I know a man who's going to offer GYE Anthropophagi (Or androphagi), Who will sing with French hippophagi Every Wednesday!
Tipsy gents, the type of snobbery, Drunk and slobbery, Make a bobbery, And the victims are of robbery Every Wednesday.
As I waltzed with JANE deliciously, JONES officiously, Injudiciously, Bumped against us both most viciously, On a Wednesday.
A civil student at my college (he Learns horology And conchology) Offers me a full apology Every Wednesday.
I know a nobleman whose publicity And complicity In mendicity Is a fact of authenticity Every Wednesday.
Once a chancellor of acidity And timidity, With rapidity Used to sing out "Rum ti iddy ti!" Every Wednesday.