The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat.
They took some honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five
       pound note.

The owl looked up to the stars above and sang to a small guitar,
O lovely pussy! O pussy my love, what a beautiful pussy you are,
        you are!
What a beautiful pussy you are.

Pussy said to the Owl, You elegant fowl! How charmingly sweet
         you sing!
Oh, let us be married, too long have we tarried, but what shall we
         do for a ring?

They sailed away for a year and a day to the land where the bong-
         tree grows,
and there in a wood a piggy-wig stood with a ring in the end of his nose,
         his nose.
With a ring in the end of his nose.

Dear pig are you willing to sell, for one shilling, the ring in the end
           of your nose?
Said the piggy, I will, so they took it away and were married next day
           by the turkey who lives on the hill.

They dined on mince and slices of quince, which they ate with a
           runcible spoon.
And hand in hand on the edge of the sand, they danced by the light of the moon,
           the moon.
They danced by the light of the moon.

                                                                               Edward Lear.
 

Pounds and shillings = old pre-decimal Imperial currency.

12 pence = 1 shilling & 20 shillings = 1 pound.

Tarried = waited.

Runcible = toothed edge.

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