Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog

Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog 

 OLD MOTHER GOOSE AND HER GANDER

Old Mother Goose when she wanted to wander,
     Would ride through the air on a very fine gander.
          Mother Goose had a house, 'twas built in a wood,
               Where an owl at the door for sentinal stood.

 This is her son Jack, a plain looking lad,
     He is not very good, nor yet very bad.
          She sent him to market, A live goose he bought;
               "Here Mother," says he, "It will not go for nought."

Jack's goose and her gander grew very fond;
     They'd both eat together, Or swim in the pond.
          Jack found one morning as I have been told,
               His goose had laid him an egg of pure gold.

Jack sold his gold egg to a rogue of a Jew,
     Who cheated him out of the half of his due.
          The Jack went a courting a lady so gay,
               As fair as the lily, as sweet as the may.

Then old Mother Goose that instant came in,
     And turned her son Jack into famed Harlequin.
        The Jew and the Squire came behind his back,
               And began to belabour the sides of poor Jack.

She then with her wand touched the lady so fine
     And turned her at once into sweet Columbine.
          The gold egg into the sea was thrown in,
               When Jack jumped in and got it back again.


The Jew got the goose, which he vowed he would kill,
     Resolving at once his pockets to fill.
         Jack's mother came in, and caught the goose soon,
               And, mounting its back, flew back to the moon.