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Of all the Knights in Appledore	A
The wisest was Sir Thomas Tom	B
He multiplied as far as four	A
And knew what nine was taken from	C
To make eleven He could write	D
A letter to another Knight	D
	-
No other Knight in all the land	E
Could do the things which he could do	F
Not only did he understand	E
The way to polish swords but knew	F
What remedy a Knight should seek	G
Whose armour had begun to squeak	G
	-
And if he didn't fight too much	H
It wasn't that he didn't care	A
For blips and buffetings and such	H
But felt that it was hardly fair	A
To risk by frequent injuries	I
A brain as delicate as his	J
	-
His castle Castle Tom was set	K
Conveniently on a hill	L
And daily when it wasn't wet	K
He paced the battlements until	L
Some smaller Knight who couldn't swim	M
Should reach the moat and challenge him	M
	-
Or sometimes feeling full of fight	D
He hurried out to scour the plain	N
And seeing some approaching Knight	D
He either hurried home again	O
Or hid and when the foe was past	P
Blew a triumphant trumpet blast	P
	-
One day when good Sir Thomas Tom	B
Was resting in a handy ditch	Q
The noises he was hiding from	C
Though very much the noises which	Q
He'd always hidden from before	A
Seemed somehow less Or was it more	A
	-
The trotting horse the trumpet's blast	P
The whistling sword the armour's squeak	G
These and especially the last	P
Had clattered by him all the week	G
Was this the same or was it not	R
Something was different But what	S
	-
Sir Thomas raised a cautious ear	A
And listened as Sir Hugh went by	T
And suddenly he seemed to hear	A
Or not to hear the reason why	T
This stranger made a nicer sound	U
Than other Knights who lived around	U
	-
Sir Thomas watched the way he went	V
His rage was such he couldn't speak	G
For years they'd called him down in Kent	V
The Knight Whose Armour Didn't Squeak	G
Yet here and now he looked upon	W
Another Knight whose squeak had gone	X
	-
He rushed to where his horse was tied	Y
He spurred it to a rapid trot	R
The only fear he felt inside	Y
About his enemy was not	R
'How sharp his sword ' 'How stout his heart '	-
But 'Has he got too long a start '	-
	-
Sir Hugh was singing hand on hip	Z
When something sudden came along	A2
And caught him a terrific blip	Z
Right in the middle of his song	A2
'A thunderstorm ' he thought 'Of course '	-
And toppled gently off his horse	B2
	-
Then said the good Sir Thomas Tom	B
Dismounting with a friendly air	A
'Allow me to extract you from	C
The heavy armour that you wear	A
At times like these the bravest Knight	D
May find his armour much too tight '	-
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A hundred yards or so beyond	C2
The scene of brave Sir Hugh's defeat	D2
Sir Thomas found a useful pond	C2
And careful not to wet his feet	D2
He brought the armour to the brink	E2
And flung it in and watched it sink	E2
	-
So ever after more and more	A
The men of Kent would proudly speak	G
Of Thomas Tom of Appledore	A
'The Knight Whose Armour Didn't Squeak '	-
Whilst Hugh the Knight who gave him best	F2
Squeaks just as badly as the rest	F2

Alan Alexander Milne

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