The queerest languages known to man, <br />Sanscrit, Hebrew, Hindoostan, <br />Are all translated and made as free <br />And comprehensive as A B C. <br /> <br />Yet the oldest language talked or sung, <br />The strange mysterious Ah Goo tongue, <br />The royal language of Babyland <br />No man living can understand. <br /> <br />Every soul in the world to-day <br />Was one time anchored in Babyland Bay, <br />And quarantined there for a year or more <br />Before he even could step on shore. <br /> <br />And everybody in Babyland Bay <br />Talks the Ah Goo tongue, so people say, <br />But once on land-why not a word <br />Do they understand of it when 'tis heard. <br /> <br />For the fairy rulers of Babyland <br />Who guard the kingdom on every hand, <br />Have willed that no one shall keep the key <br />Who crosses into the Grown-up Sea. <br /> <br />So the sweet court language has never been made <br />A common parlance of strife or trade, <br />But is kept in the kingdom where natives come <br />Versed in the language of Babydom. <br /> <br />They are all of them royal and that is how <br />The Grown-up people all kneel and bow, <br />When they hear that language talked or sung- <br />The strange mysterious Ah Goo tongue.<br /><br />Ella Wheeler Wilcox<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ah-goo-tongue/
