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And they climb the trees when it drizzles or hails
To get electricity into their nails:
And the Glug that fails
Is a luckless Glug, if it drizzles or hails."

Now, the Glugs abide in the land of Gosh;
And they work all day for the sake of Splosh.
For Splosh, the First, is the nation's pride,
And King of the Glugs, on his uncle's side.
And they sleep at night, for the sake of rest;
For their doctors say this suits them best.
And they climb the trees, as a general rule.
For exercise, when the weather is cool.
They're taught at school
To climb the trees when the weather is cool.

And the whispering grass on the gay green hills.
And every cricket that skirls and shrills.
And every moonbeam, gleaming white.
All know the Glugs quite well by sight.
And they say, "It is safe, is the test we bring:
For a Glug is an awfully Glug like thing.
And they climb the trees when there's sign of a fog,
To scan the land for a feasible dog.
They love to jog
Thro' dells in quest of a feasible dog."