Le Quartette Fauntastique; Or, The Ballade Of Pseudo-Pliny's Imagin'ry Mini-Menagerie

The Beasts

Ripley's Radicaloo

The Physiologus-drawn Dango

The Innumerate Quot

Pitt's Illijitterbug Bear

 

The Ballade

   By 

Lear unsuspected;

by Gorey neglected.

By Carroll...? Detected...then shunn'd:

   Pseudo-  

Pliny's Imagin'ry

Mini-Menagerie! 

Stare! Then, prepare 

to be stunn'd!

 

Ripley's Radicaloo

   Rather 

rare's Ripley's Radicaloo, 

which sports    

three. (You 'n' me...? 

We've but two.)

   So: how 

so is such so...? Blathers 

Rather "I know..." -- tho' Dan's 

not 'bout to hand out 

one clue.

 
The Dango

      The 

   Physiologus-drawn Dango 

   (tres unclean!) goes unseen 

   'cept towards dark.

      You who'd 

   vie to espy it...? 

   You'd best just deny it.

   (Put bluntly: Go hunt me a Snark!)

   The Innumerate Quot 

  To that 

lot who would spot 

the Innumerate Quot -- 

pictured here as a yearling 

(a calf):

   Nose...? Ears...?

Eyes...? Of each, one. 

Eyeballs...? Truth to tell: none. 

But eyelashes...? A thatch and 

a half.    

 

   
The Illijitterbug Bear 

   Willy 

Pitt's Illijitterbug Bear 

boogies bare. Queried, 

"Where's that fair

hair... 

     ...which once

thrived 'neath your fez...?" 

Illijitterbug says, 

"One iota less I could not 

care."