THE TABLE AND THE CHAIR 
I 
  Said the Table to the Chair,   "You can hardly be aware   How I suffer from the heat   And from chilblains on my feet.
  If we took a little walk,   We might have a little talk;   Pray let us take the air,"
  Said the Table to the Chair.
II 
  Said the Chair unto the Table,   "Now, you know we are not able:
  How foolishly you talk,   When you know we cannot walk!"
  Said the Table with a sigh,   "It can do no harm to try.
  I've as many legs as you:
  Why can't we walk on two?"
III 
  So they both went slowly down,   And walked about the town   With a cheerful bumpy sound   As they toddled round and round;   And everybody cried,   As they hastened to their side,   "See! the Table and the Chair   Have come out to take the air!"
IV 
  But in going down an alley,   To a castle in a valley,   They completely lost their way,   And wandered all the day;   Till, to see them safely back,   They paid a Ducky-quack,   And a Beetle, and a Mouse,   Who took them to their house.
V 
  Then they whispered to each other,   "O delightful little brother,   What a lovely walk we've taken!
  Let us dine on beans and bacon."
  So the Ducky and the leetle   Browny-Mousy and the Beetle   Dined, and danced upon their heads   Till they toddled to their beds.
EDWARD LEAR