The Dong With the Luminous Nose [Edward Lear]-Kenneth Williams

[ti:The Dong With the Luminous Nose (Edward Lear)] [ar:Kenneth Williams] [al:Parlour Poetry - Comic, Patriotic and Improving Verse from the Victorian Age] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Dong With the Luminous Nose [Edward Lear] - Kenneth Williams [00:00.70]When awful darkness and silence reign [00:02.91]Over the great Gromboolian plain [00:04.88]Through the long long wintry nights [00:06.85]When the angry breakers roar [00:08.39]As they beat on the rocky shore [00:10.34]When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights [00:13.02]Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore [00:14.53] [00:15.15]Then through the vast and gloomy dark [00:17.61]There moves what seems a fiery spark [00:19.70]A lonely spark with silvery rays [00:21.86]Piercing the coal-black night [00:23.55]A Meteor strange and bright [00:25.90]Hither and thither the vision strays [00:27.96]A single lurid light [00:29.61] [00:30.27]Slowly it wander pauses creeps [00:32.28]Anon it sparklesflashes and leaps [00:33.95]And ever as onward it gleaming goes [00:36.06]A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws [00:39.12]And those who watch at that midnight hour [00:41.72]From Hall or Terrace or lofty Tower [00:43.69]Cry as the wild light passes along [00:46.11]The Dong the Dong [00:47.78]The wandering Dong through the forest goes [00:50.60]The Dong the Dong [00:52.37]The Dong with a luminous Nose [00:54.83] [00:56.62]Long years ago [00:57.71]The Dong was happy and gay [00:59.86]Till he fell in love with a Jumbly Girl [01:02.19]Who came to those shores one day [01:04.35]For the Jumblies came in a sieve they did [01:06.96]Landing at eve near the Zemmery Fidd [01:08.99] [01:10.01]Where the Oblong Oysters grow [01:11.35] [01:11.91]And the rocks are smooth and gray [01:13.77] [01:14.66]And all the woods and the valleys rang [01:16.93]With the Chorus they daily and nightly sang [01:19.35]Far and few far and few [01:21.54] [01:22.05]Are the lands where the Jumblies live [01:24.48]Their heads are green and the hands are blue [01:27.61]And they went to sea in a sieve [01:30.00] [01:31.73]Happily happily passed those days [01:34.12]While the cheerful Jumblies staid [01:36.16]They danced in circlets all night long [01:38.78]To the plaintive pipe of the lively Dong [01:40.94]In moonlight shine or shade [01:42.57] [01:43.11]For day and night he was always there [01:45.98]By the side of the Jumbly Girl so fair [01:48.41]With her sky-blue hands and her sea-green hair [01:50.77] [01:51.28]Till the morning came of that hateful day [01:53.80]When the Jumblies sailed in their sieve away [01:56.36] [01:56.90]And the Dong was left on the cruel shore [01:59.93]Gazing gazing for evermore [02:02.21]Ever keeping his weary eyes on [02:04.24]That pea-green sail on the far horizon [02:07.29]Singing the Jumbly Chorus still [02:09.51]As he sate all day on the grassy hill [02:11.76]Far and few far and few [02:13.82] [02:14.38]Are the lands where the Jumblies live [02:16.68]Their heads are green and the hands are blue [02:19.96]And they went to sea in a sieve [02:22.16] [02:23.90]But when the sun was low in the West [02:25.94]The Dong arose and said [02:27.09] [02:28.20]What little sense I once possessed [02:30.16]Has quite gone out of my head [02:31.71] [02:32.43]And since that day he wanders still [02:34.59]By lake and dorest marsh and hills [02:36.54]Singing of somewhere in valley or plain [02:39.08]Might I find my Jumbly Girl again [02:41.54] [02:42.24]For ever I'll seek by lake and shore [02:44.91]Till I find my Jumbly Girl once more [02:47.85] [02:48.47]Playing a pipe with silvery squeaks [02:50.55]Since then his Jumbly Girl he seeks [02:52.67]And because by night he could not see [02:54.75]He gathered the bark of the Twangum Tree [02:56.99]On the flowery plain that grows [02:59.12]And he wove him a wondrous Nose [03:01.89] [03:02.43]A Nose as strange as a Nose could be [03:05.62]Of vast proportions and painted red [03:07.79]And tied with cords to the back of his head [03:10.08]In a hollow rounded space it ended [03:12.96]With a luminous Lamp within suspended [03:15.52]All fenced about [03:16.62]With a bandage stout [03:17.73]To prevent the wind from blowing it out [03:20.20]And with holes all round to send the light [03:22.52]In gleaming rays on the dismal night [03:24.85] [03:26.78]And now each night and all night long [03:28.72] [03:29.31]Over those plains still roams the Dong [03:31.52] [03:32.05]And above the wail of the Chimp and Snipe [03:34.77]You may hear the squeak of his plaintive pipe [03:37.45]While ever he seeks but seeks in vain [03:39.88]To meet with his Jumbly Girl again [03:42.58] [03:43.11]Lonely and wild all night he goes [03:45.83]The Dong with a luminous Nose [03:47.65] [03:48.24]And all who watch at the midnight hour [03:50.80]From Hall or Terrace or lofty Tower [03:52.92]Cry as they trace the Meteor bright [03:55.13]Moving along through the dreary night [03:57.33]This is the hour when forth he goes [04:00.18]The Dong with a luminous Nose [04:02.79]Yonder over the plain he goes [04:05.48]He goes [04:06.37]He goes [04:07.05] [04:07.76]The Dong with a luminous Nose