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Originally Posted by Harrysmum   Oh My Goodness!!!! You've just taken me back to my childhood!!!
Edward Lear was my 'go to' poet...or at least the poems that my parents used to read to me....  'Nonsense poems' as they're called over here.... 
I absolutely adore you for reading Olde English Victorian Poets to your bub!!! x |
Sorry it took me so long - I had most of Mr. Lear's books - kept rereading the limericks…. loved "The Dong With the Luminous Nose"
"Far and few, far and few" has turned out to be an instant soporific for Shelby - who knew?
But then this rather precious blogger posts
"Far and few, far and few / are the land where the Jumblies live”: copying down that line as an adult carries with it a certain shame at ever having been entranced by it, to say nothing the greater shame that this entrancement has not ended, although the words no longer possess the incantatory power they did when I first encountered the poem as a child. "
Paris Review ? Edward Lear?s ?The Dong with a Luminous Nose?, Sam Munson
I have zero shame about copying it down if it gets an overtired Yorkie to make her nest and go to sleep.
Have I ever mentioned how much I love watching Shelby making a nest? I probably have - but I can't get over how relaxing it is to both her and us…
Sweet dreams to all Yorkies and their parents - we all have the right to bedtime poetry…