 | Edward Lear - 1871 - 178 ˹éÒ
...sieve ain't big : But we don't care a button ; we don't care a fig ; In a sieve we'll go to sea ! " Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live : THE JUMBLIES. Their heads are green, and their hands are blue ; And they went to sea in a sieve.... | |
 | 1872 - 466 ˹éÒ
...gracilis' or ' Plumbunnia nutritiosa,' and songs of which the burden has no more rhyme or reason than " Far and few, far and few Are the lands where the Jumblies live " ART. III.— THE MOFUSSIL RECORDS OF BENGAL. THE neglect, which is universal throughout India, of... | |
 | Martha Le Baron Goddard - 1874 - 382 ˹éÒ
...long, in the moonlight pale, We sail away, with a pea-green sail, In the shade of the mountains brown.' Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the...Jumblies live : Their heads are green, and their hands are blue ; And they went to sea in a sieve. v. They sailed to the Western Sea, they did, — To a land... | |
 | Martha Le Baron Goddard - 1874 - 248 ˹éÒ
...with lollipop paws, And forty bottles of ring-bo-ree, . And no end of Stilton cheese. Far and tew, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live : Their heads are green, and their hands are blue ; And they went to sea in a sieve. And in twenty years they all came back, — In twenty years... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 1875 - 374 ˹éÒ
...few, far and few Are the lands where the Jurablies live; Then- heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a sieve." CHAPTER VIII. AND WHAT CAME OF IT. "T TNCLE, could you lend me a nincpence? I'll *-' return it as soon as I get my pocket-money," said... | |
 | 1880 - 700 ˹éÒ
...said Lina ; and then, after a few moments' silence, she began repeating in a low, impressive voice: " Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the jumblies live, Their heads were green, and their veils were blue, And they went to sea in a siere." " Lina, you are too much I"... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1883 - 662 ˹éÒ
...dark, and the voyage is long ; And, happen what may, it's extremely wrong In a sieve to sail so fast." Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the...Jumblies live : Their heads are green, and their hands are blue ; And they went to sea in a sieve. in. The water it soon came in, it did ; The- water it soon... | |
 | Lady Margaret Majendie - 1884 - 358 ˹éÒ
...breakfast singing, and as nobody was in the breakfast - room, she stood at the window and went on : ' Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the...Jumblies live ; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a sieve.' Little Jaqueline sighed, and went on again in rather a... | |
 | Edward Lear - 1888 - 260 ˹éÒ
...Our sieve ain't big; But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig: la a sieve we 'll go to sea!" Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the...Jumblies live: Their heads are green, and their hands are blue And they went to sea in a sieve. It: They sailed away in a sieve, they did, In a sieve they... | |
 | Edward Lear - 1888 - 438 ˹éÒ
...smooth and gray. And all the woods and the valleys rang With the Chorus they daily and nightly sang, — "Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; TTteir heads are green, and their hands are blue. And they went to sea in a sieve" LAUGHABLE LYRICS.... | |
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Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live: Their heads are green, and their hands are blue; And they went to sea in a sieve. 
