The Oxytoise's Lament single work   poetry   children's   "I often wondered why the sea"
Issue Details: First known date: 1920... 1920 The Oxytoise's Lament
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A child meets a hybrid oxytoise (an ox with a turtle shell), who explains that the sea is salty because he collects his tears in a cup and tips it upon the sand. He asks the child to not be cheerful so that he can remain sad to replenish the oceans.

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    y separately published work icon Cole's Happy Time Picture and Nursery Rhyme Book Lillian M. Pyke , Percy Leason (illustrator), Melbourne : E. W. Cole , 1920 Z846345 1920 selected work poetry children's A collection of original verse, some of which revisit well-known stories and rhymes and others that introduce Australian content, including a set of limericks about Victorian places. This collection has some specific leanings to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, both in the content of individual rhymes and in Leason's delightful illustrations. Cole's Happy Time Picture and Nursery Rhyme Book : A Jolly Book for Little Australians full of Bright Pictures Melbourne : E. W. Cole , 1920 pg. 17
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