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Ogden Nash
AUDIO POEMS
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The Tale of Custard the Dragon
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Belinda lived in a little white house,
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Now the name of the little
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Custard the dragon had big
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Belinda was as brave as
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Belinda tickled him, she tickled him unmerciful,
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Suddenly, suddenly they
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Pistol in his left hand, pistol in his right,
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But up jumped Custard
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The pirate gaped at Belinda's dragon,
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Acknowledgements: Morgan Friedman Ogden Nash Online,
For information about Ogden Nash or the use of his works,
contact Frances Rider
Smith.
Ogden Nash poems and stories
Copyright © by Linell Nash Smith and Isabel Nash Eberstadt.
Some of Ogden Nash's
verses have almost
become proverbial:
The Camel has
a single hump,
The dromedary two,
Or is it just the other way,
I'm never sure -- are you?

Candy is dandy;
But liquor is quicker

I think that
I shall never see
A billboard
lovely as a tree;
Indeed, unless
the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all
(parody of the poem
Trees by
Joyce Kilmer)