(FOR THE FELLOWSHIP CLU <br /> <br />Lyman and Frederick and Jim, one day, <br /> Set out in a great big ship-- <br />Steamed to the ocean adown the bay <br /> Out of a New York slip. <br />"Where are you going and what is your game?" <br /> The people asked those three. <br />"Darned if we know; but all the same <br /> Happy as larks are we; <br /> And happier still we're going to be!" <br /> Said Lyman <br /> And Frederick <br /> And Jim. <br /> <br />The people laughed "Aha, oho! <br /> Oho, aha!" laughed they; <br />And while those three went sailing so <br /> Some pirates steered that way. <br />The pirates they were laughing, too-- <br /> The prospect made them glad; <br />But by the time the job was through <br /> Each of them pirates, bold and bad, <br />Had been done out of all he had <br /> By Lyman <br /> And Frederick <br /> And Jim. <br /> <br />Days and weeks and months they sped, <br /> Painting that foreign clime <br />A beautiful, bright vermilion red-- <br /> And having a ---- of a time! <br />'T was all so gaudy a lark, it seemed <br /> As if it could not be, <br />And some folks thought it a dream they dreamed <br /> Of sailing that foreign sea, <br /> But I 'll identify you these three-- <br /> Lyman <br /> And Frederick <br /> And Jim. <br /> <br />Lyman and Frederick are bankers and sich <br /> And Jim is an editor kind; <br />The first two named are awfully rich <br /> And Jim ain't far behind! <br />So keep your eyes open and mind your tricks, <br /> Or you are like to be <br />In quite as much of a Tartar fix <br /> As the pirates that sailed the sea <br /> And monkeyed with the pardners three, <br /> Lyman <br /> And Frederick <br /> And Jim!<br /><br />Eugene Field<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lyman-frederick-and-jim/
