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 PARADOX by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON RHYTHM by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE DINNER-PARTY by AMY LOWELL TWENTY-FOUR HOKKU ON A MODERN THEME by AMY LOWELL THE DUNES OF INDIANA by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE NEW APOCRYPHA: BERENICE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |