Close keep your lips, if that you meane
To be accounted inside cleane:
For if you cleave them, we shall see
There in your teeth much Leprosie.

The clear cool note of the cuckoo which has ousted the legitimate nest-holder,
The whistle of the railway guard dispatching the train to the inevitable collision,
The maiden's monosyllabic reply to a polysyllabic proposal,
The fundamental note of the last trump, which is presumably D natural;
All of these are sounds to rejoice in, yea, to let your very ribs re-echo with:
But better than all of them is the absolutely last chord of the apparently inexhaustible pianoforte player.

Clean birds by sevens,
Unclean by twos,
The dove in the heavens
Is the one I choose.

Chook, chook, chook, chook, chook,
Good morning, Mrs. Hen.
How many chickens have you got?
Madam, I've got ten.
Four of them are yellow,
And four of them are brown,
And two of them are speckled red,
The nicest in the town.

(Sung by the savages as they danced round the Latin grammar master, in a hamper with his head shaved, while two savages floured him, before putting him to the fire to be cooked)
Choo a choo a choo tooth.
Muntch, muntch. Nycey!
Choo a choo a choo tooth.
Muntch, muntch. Nycey!

The cherry trees bend over and are shedding
On the old road where all that passed are dead,
Their petals, strewing the grass as for a wedding
This early May morn when there is none to wed.

Chattering Swallow, what shall we,
Shall we do to punish thee?
Shall we clip thy wings, or cut
Tereus like thy shrill tongue out?
Who Rodantha driv'st away
From my dreams, by break of day.

for RBS

Chang Liang's face was like a young woman's;
Li Kuang was quite sincere — and ugly.
Yet with one blow Chang nearly killed the Dragon;
with ape-arms Li shot arrows like a god.

Chaeronean Plutarch, to thy deathless praise
Does martial Rome this grateful statue raise;
Because both Greece and she thy fame have shared
(Their heroes written, and their lives compared);
But thou thyself couldst never write thy own:
Their lives have parallels, but thine has none.