lirik lagu david shaw-parker - edward lear - the pelican chorus
king and queen of the pelicans we;
no other birds so grand we see!
none but we have feet like fins!
with lovely leathery throats and chins!
ploffskin, pluffskin, pelican jee!
we think no birds so happy as we!
plumpskin, ploshkin, pelican jill!
we think so then, and we thought so still!
we live on the nile. the nile we love
by night we sleep on the cliffs above;
by day we fish, and at eve we stand
on long bare islands of yellow sand
and when the sun sinks slowly down
and the great rock walls grow dark and brown
where the purple river rolls fast and dim
and the ivory ibis starlike skim
wing to wing we dance around,~~
stamping our feet with a flumpy sound,~~
opening our mouths as pelicans ought
and this is the song we nighly snort;~~
ploffskin, pluffskin, pelican jee!
we think no birds so happy as we!
plumpskin, ploshkin, pelican jill!
we think so then, and we thought so still!
last year came out our daughter, dell;
and all the birds received her well
to do her honour, a feast we made
for every bird that can swim or wade
herons and gulls, and cormorants black
cranes, and flamingoes with scarlet back
plovers and storks, and geese in clouds
swans and dilberry ducks in crowds
thousands of birds in wondrous flight!
they ate and drank and danced all night
and echoing back from the rocks you heard
multitude~echoes from bird to bird,~~
ploffskin, pluffskin, pelican jee!
we think no birds so happy as we!
plumpskin, ploshkin, pelican jill!
we think so then, and we thought so still!
yes, they came; and among the rest
the king of the cranes all grandly dressed
such a lovely tail! its feathers float
between the ends of his blue dress~coat;
with pea~green trowsers all so neat
and a delicate frill to hide his feet,~~
(for though no one speaks of it, every one knows
he has got no webs between his toes!)
as soon as he saw our daughter dell
in violent love that crane king fell,~~
on seeing her waddling form so fair
with a wreath of shrimps in her short white hair
and before the end of the next long day
our dell had given her heart away;
for the king of the cranes had won that heart
with a crocodile’s egg and a large fish~tart
she vowed to marry the king of the cranes
leaving the nile for stranges plains;
and away they flew in a gathering crowd
of endless birds in a lengthening cloud
ploffskin, pluffskin, pelican jee!
we think no birds so happy as we!
plumpskin, ploshkin, pelican jill!
we think so then, and we thought so still!
and far away in the twilight sky
we heard them singing a lessening cry,~~
farther and farther till out of sight
and we stood alone in thesilent night!
often since, in the nights of june
we sit on the sand and watch the moon;~~
she has gone to the great gromboolian plain
and we probably never shall meet again!
oft, in the long still nights of june
we sit on the rocks and watch the moon;~~
~~~~she dwells by the streams of the chankly bore
and we probably never shall see her more
ploffskin, pluffskin, pelican jee!
we think no birds so happy as we!
plumpskin, ploshkin, pelican jill!
we think so then, and we thought so still!
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