The Walrus and the Carpenter

The time has come, the walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax,
Of cabbages and kings,
And why the sea is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings.

About Oliver Wendell Holmes

American physician and poet. His witty, accessible verse, including "Old Ironsides," made him one of the Fireside Poets.

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