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In fourteen hundred and ninety two	A
Someone sailed the ocean blue	A
Somebody borrowed the fare in Spain	B
For a business trip on the bounding main	B
And to prove to the people by actual test	C
You could get to the East by sailing West	C
Somebody said Sail on Sail on	D
And studied China and China's lingo	E
And cried from the bow There's China now	F
And promptly bumped into San Domingo	E
Somebody murmured Oh dear oh dear	G
I've discovered the Western Hemisphere	G
	-
And that you may think my friends was that	H
But it wasn't Not by a fireman's hat	H
Well enough wasn't left alone	I
And Columbus was only a cornerstone	I
There came the Spaniards	J
There came the Greeks	K
There came the Pilgrims in leather breeks	K
There came the Dutch	L
And the Poles and Swedes	K
The Persians too	A
And perhaps the Medes	K
The Letts the Lapps and the Lithuanians	K
Regal Russians and ripe Roumanians	K
There came the French	M
And there came the Finns	K
And the Japanese	K
With their formal grins	K
The Tartars came	N
And the Terrible Turks	K
In a word humanity shot the works	K
And the country that should have been Cathay	O
Decided to be	P
The U S A	Q
	-
And that you may think my friends was that	H
But it wasn't Not by a fireman's hat	H
Christopher C was the cornerstone	I
And well enough wasn't left alone	I
For those who followed	R
When he was through	A
They burned to discover something too	A
Somebody bored with rural scenery	P
Went to work and invented machinery	P
While a couple of other mental giants	K
Got together	S
And thought up Science	K
Platinum blondes	K
They were once peroxide	T
Peruvian bonds	K
And carbon monoxide	T
Tax evaders	K
And Vitamin A	Q
Vice crusaders	K
And tattletale gray	O
These with many another phobia	Q
We owe to that famous Twelfth of Octobia	Q
O misery misery mumble and moan	I
Someone invented the telephone	I
And interrupted a nation's slumbers	K
Ringing wrong but similar numbers	K
Someone devised the silver screen	U
And the intimate Hollywood magazine	U
And life is a Hades	K
Of clicking cameras	K
And foreign ladies	K
Behaving amorous	K
Gags have erased	V
Amusing dialog	W
As gas has replaced	V
The crackling firelog	W
All that glitters is sold as gold	X
And our daily diet grows odder and odder	S
And breakfast foods are dusty and cold	X
It's a wise child	Y
That knows its fodder	S
Someone invented the automobile	Z
And good Americans took the wheel	Z
To view American rivers and rills	K
And justly famous forests and hills	K
But someone equally enterprising	W
Had invented billboard advertising	W
You linger at home	A2
In dark despair	B2
And wistfully try the electric air	B2
You hope against hope for a quiz imperial	C2
And what do they give you	A
A doctor serial	C2
Oh Columbus was only a cornerstone	I
And well enough wasn't left alone	I
For the Inquisition was less tyrannical	C2
Than the iron rules of an age mechanical	C2
Which because of an error in '	-
Are clamped like corsets on me and you	A
While Children of Nature we'd be today	O
If San Domingo	W
Had been Cathay	O
	-
And that you may think my friends is that	H
But it isn't not by a fireman's hat	H
The American people	C2
With grins jocose	K
Always survive the fatal dose	K
And though our systems are slightly wobbly	P
We'll fool the doctor this time probly	P

Ogden Nash

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