Friday, June 1, 2012

A few "Emmeline"-related tidbits for you. First, there's a poem by A.A. Milne (though to rhyme properly the name would have to be pronounced Emmaleen.

BEFORE TEA
Emmeline
Has not been seen
For more than a week. She slipped between
The tow tall trees at the end of the green...
We all went after her. "Emmeline!"
"Emmeline,
I didn't mean -
I only said that your hand weren't clean."
We went to the trees at the end of the green...
But Emmeline
Was not to be seen.
Emmeline
Came slipping between
The tow tall trees at the end of the green.
We all ran to her. "Emmeline!
Where have you been?
Where have you been?
Why, it's more than a week!" And Emmeline
Said, "Sillies, I went and saw the Queen.
She says my hands are purfickly clean!"
-A.A. Milne (author of Winnie the Pooh)

Emmeline is also a character in the second Anne of Green Gables movie.

There's also a Ben Folds song called Emaline.

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