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…<\/p>\n
When the leaves were turning brown
\nFive hundred thousand Octopods
\nAll painfully came down
\nAnd on the back of every one
\nA Pofflikopp held fast …<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThese appear, judging by the rest of the nonsense poem, to have been air-octopii that fell to earth because they had died of indigestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A new and tentacular Edward Lear poem has been discovered, “Lays of the Octapods” (1882), a companion to his known …<\/p>\n