If I could get to heaven By eating all I could, I'd become a pig, And I'd gobble up my food! Or, if I could get to heaven By climbing up a tree, I'd become a monkey, And I'd climb up rapidly! Or, if I could get to heaven By any other way Than the way that's told of I'd 'a been there yesterday! But the way that we are told of Bars the monkey and the pig! And is very, very, difficult, Besides that! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HAYSTACK IN THE FLOODS by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) THRENOS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY S. BARNABAS by JOSEPH BEAUMONT A PALIMPSEST by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY A WOODLAND RHYME by ALEXANDER BROWN ST. BEE'S HEAD by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN ON SEEING A YOUTH AFFECTIONATELY WELCOMED BY A SISTER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |