Ever they’d come ashore
Sadder and wiser men,
They’d have turned back again;
And that he did not, but did cross the sea,
Is a pure wonder, I must say, to me.
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THE USUAL WAY
Anonymous
There was once a little man, and his rod and line he took,
For he said, “I’ll go a-fishing in the neighboring brook.”