Poetry Friday.

I'd like to share some of Noel Bastable's brilliant poetry featured in E. Nesbit's The Story of the Treasure Seekers.  If you haven't read the book, you're missing out in a big, big way.  It's hysterically funny.

O Eloquence and what art thou?
    Ay what art thou? because we cried
    And everybody cried inside
    When they came out their eyes were red--
    And it was your doing Father said.

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O Beetle how I weep to see
       Thee lying on thy poor back!
    It is so very sad indeed.
       You were so shiny and black.
    I wish you were alive again
    But Eliza says wishing it is nonsense and a shame.