✦ The Rhyme ✦
I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
Traditional English nursery rhyme. Public domain.
I saw a ship a-sailing, A-sailing on the sea, And oh, but it was laden With pretty things for thee!
There were comfits in the cabin, And apples in the hold; The sails were made of silk, And the masts were all of gold.
The four-and-twenty sailors, That stood between the decks, Were four-and-twenty white mice, With chains about their necks.
The captain was a duck, With a packet on his back, And when the ship began to move, The captain said, “Quack! Quack!”