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Ann, Ann!
Come! quick as you can!
There's a fish that talks
In the read more
Ann, Ann!
Come! quick as you can!
There's a fish that talks
In the frying-pan.
But death is sure to kill all he can get
And all is fish with him that comes to read more
But death is sure to kill all he can get
And all is fish with him that comes to net.
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and read more
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my
tail!
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance:
They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the
dance?"
Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive,
And finds that by his strength but vainly he read more
Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive,
And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive;
His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow,
That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw:
Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand,
That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand,
Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut.
And if at first he fail, his second summersaut
He instantly assays and from his nimble ring,
Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling
Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.
The great fish [eat] the small.
The great fish [eat] the small.
The whales, you see, eat up the little fish.
The whales, you see, eat up the little fish.
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;
But is there anything Beyond?
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;
But is there anything Beyond?
God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers,
So many fishes of so many features,
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God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers,
So many fishes of so many features,
That in the waters we may see all Creatures;
Even all that on the earth is to be found,
As if the world were in deep waters drowned.