IF all the world was paper, And all the sea was ink, If all the trees were bread and cheese, What should we have to drink? @3It's enough to make a man like me Scratch his head and think.@1 If all the world were sand-o, Oh, then what should we lack-o? If, as they say, there were no clay, How should we take tobacco? If all our vessels ran-a, If none but had a crack, If Spanish apes ate all the grapes, How should be do for a sack? If friars had no bald pates, Nor nuns had no dark cloisters; If all the seas were beans and peas, How should we for oysters? If all things were eternal, And nothing their end bringing; If this should be, then how should we Here make an end of singing? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A PRAYER FOR INDIFFERENCE by FRANCES (FANNY) MACARTNEY GREVILLE THOUGHTS WHILE PACKING A TRUNK by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER by ALEXANDER POPE THE MIST AND ALL by DIXIE WILLSON LOVE'S NEW PHILOSOPHY by PHILIP AYRES CHRISTMAS AFTER WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES TO MR. BLEECKER, ON HIS PASSAGE TO NEW YORK by ANN ELIZA BLEECKER |