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Well, I don’t know about any of the other Brits in the audience, but I could do with some light relief after a week of political intrigue! Hopefully this will be the very thing to cheer us up. From the Oxford Book of Parodies, edited by John Gross, here is the nursey rhyme Jack and Jill, as Walt Whitman might have written it.
I celebrate the personality of Jack!
I love his dirty hands, his tangled hair, his locomotion blundering.
Each wart upon his hands I sing,
Paeans I chant to his hulking shoulder blades.
Also Jill!
Her I celebrate.
I, Walt, of unbridled thought and tongue
Whoop her up!
Her golden hair, her sun-struck face, her hard and reddened hands;
So, too, her feet, hefty, shambling…
[And a good deal more in the same vein]
Charles Battell Loomis
Jill, Jill our dear friend,
Your single days now must end.
Now you're going to be a Mrs.
With joy, glad hearts, and lots of kisses.
- oh, my!
'Something's going on,' Jill thought.
Party planners might get caught!
'Everyone's running all around.'
But no one peeps, not one sound.
Charlesbridgians in all their finery
Line up to toast with champagne winery.
The conference room in bride's disguise,
Hush, hush, keep quiet for the big surprise!
Jill, Jill, our dear friend,Happy tidings your friends do send.
May your wedding be a happy day,
With laughs and love and cafe au lait!
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Interns will work for food!
Posted by Donna
