A new and tentacular Edward Lear poem has been discovered, “Lays of the Octapods” (1882), a companion to his known short poem “The Octopods and Reptiles”. It begins…
When the leaves were turning brown
Five hundred thousand Octopods
All painfully came down
And on the back of every one
A Pofflikopp held fast …
These appear, judging by the rest of the nonsense poem, to have been air-octopii that fell to earth because they had died of indigestion.