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Come, Sit Beside Me Dear, He Said Deliria The Sunlight Lies Upon the Fields Mine Was the One The Threads of Thought Are Not for Me Come Husband! Come, and Ply the Trade How Good It Is to Be Alone (1) How Good It Is to Be Alone (2) Upon My Golden Backbone All Over the Lilac Brine! The Sunlight Falls Upon the Grass The Crocodile The Giraffe My Uncle Paul of Pimlico It Makes a Change What a Day It’s Been! How Mournful to Imagine The Jailor and the Jaguar The Camel I Wish I Could Remember I Waxes and I Wanes, Sir The Hippopotamus A Languorous Life Sensitive, Seldom and Sad Roll Them Down One Day When They Had Settled Down Again! Again! and Yet Again Uncle George The King of Ranga-Tanga-Roon I Cannot Give You Reasons The Ballad of Sweet Pighead Hold Fast I Must Begin to Comprehend The Threads Remain White Mules at Prayer O Love, O Death, O Ecstasy Tintinnabulum Squat Ursula The Hideous Root The Men in Bowler Hats Are Sweet Aunts and Uncles The Osseous ’Orse vi 60 63 64 65 68 69 71 73 76 78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 100 102 104 106 108 110 112 113 114 115 116 120 122 123 124 127 128 138 140 148 150 154
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Song of the Castle Poet 156 How White and Scarlet Is that Face 157 O Here It Is and There It Is… 158 Little Spider 161 ‘It Worries Me to Know’ 161 A-Lolling on the Shores of Old Hawaii O’er Seas that Have No Beaches The Bullfrog and the Flies The Rhino and the Lark Richly in the Unctuous Dell Manifold Basket’s Song With a One, Two, Up! In Ancient Days O Keep Away O Darling When a Story’s Done Undertaker’s Song (1) Undertaker’s Song (2) Nannie Slagg’s Song Fuchsia’s Song Nannie Slagg’s Lullaby Where the Little Dunderhead Lean Sideways on the Wind Of Pygmies, Palms and Pirates An Angry Cactus Does No Good I Cannot Give the Reasons O Little Fly How Fly the Birds of Heaven 166 167 169 170 174 174 176 176 178 179 181 182 183 183 184 184 186 186 188 189 191 191 Leave the Stronger 193 Fish or Fowl 194 ‘Shrink! Shrink!’ 195 An Old and Crumbling Parapet 196 It Is Most Best 198 The Hours of Night Are Drawing On 198 Over the Pig-Shaped Clouds They Flew 200 Come, Break the News to Me, Sweet Horse! 200 What Though My Jaw 202 The Trouble with Geraniums 202 Crocodiles 203 Along the Cold, Regurgitating Shore 204 I Have My Price 204 Jehovah, Jehovah 205 Synopsis: Over the Border or The Adventures of Footfruit 208 vii

Come, Sit Beside Me Dear, He Said

Deliria

The Sunlight Lies Upon the Fields

Mine Was the One

The Threads of Thought Are Not for Me

Come Husband! Come, and Ply the Trade

How Good It Is to Be Alone (1)

How Good It Is to Be Alone (2)

Upon My Golden Backbone

All Over the Lilac Brine!

The Sunlight Falls Upon the Grass

The Crocodile

The Giraffe

My Uncle Paul of Pimlico

It Makes a Change

What a Day It’s Been!

How Mournful to Imagine

The Jailor and the Jaguar

The Camel

I Wish I Could Remember

I Waxes and I Wanes, Sir

The Hippopotamus

A Languorous Life

Sensitive, Seldom and Sad

Roll Them Down

One Day When They Had Settled Down

Again! Again! and Yet Again

Uncle George

The King of Ranga-Tanga-Roon

I Cannot Give You Reasons

The Ballad of Sweet Pighead

Hold Fast

I Must Begin to Comprehend

The Threads Remain

White Mules at Prayer

O Love, O Death, O Ecstasy

Tintinnabulum

Squat Ursula

The Hideous Root

The Men in Bowler Hats Are Sweet

Aunts and Uncles

The Osseous ’Orse vi

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