Oh, Timballoo! How Happy We Are

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"Oh, Timballoo! how happy we are,
  We live in a sieve and a crockery jar!
  And all night long, in the starlight pale,
  We sail away, with a pea-green sail,
  And whistle and warble a moony song
  To the echoing sound of a coppery gong.
  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."

© Louisa May Alcott