The Night Mail and Other Poems

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The Song of Mr Toad

by Kenneth Grahame

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(in my head, this is read by the late, great, Willie Rushden)

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The world has held great Heroes,

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As history-books have showed;

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But never a name to go down to fame

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Compared with that of Toad

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The clever men at Oxford

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Know all that there is to be knowed.

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But they none of them knew one half as much

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As intelligent Mr Toad!

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The animals sat in the Ark and cried,

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Their tears in torrents flowed.

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Who was it said, “There’s land ahead?”

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Encouraging Mr Toad!

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The Army all saluted