The Peter Pan Alphabet

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A is for Adams

So A is for Adams, Oh! fortunate A
Luck certainly seems to be coming your way. 
In the Days of my Infancy, A I recall
Stood for Ant or for Apple or anything small. 
Now A stands for Adams, Maude Adams, Hurray!
I always said A would be Famous some day.

B stands for the Boys

B’s for the Boys, all as Busy as Bees
They are building a Little House under the Trees
With funny red walls and mossy green roof
Where Wendy may live from danger aloof.

C is the Crocodile

C is the Crocodile Creepy who ate
The right hand of Hook and covets its mate
He makes a loud ticking wherever he goes
For he swallowed a Clock (To kill time I suppose).

D is for DoodleDoo

D is the Dire and Dread DoodleDoo
With which Peter Daunted the Pirate crew,
And demolished a foolish old Proverb for good
By crowing before he was out of the wood.

E is the Exit

E is the Exit the three children made
With Peter and Tinker for guides, Who’s afraid?
They sailed through the window as calm as could be
Like three little Cherubim out for a Spree.

F is the Fight

F is the Fight, Peter Fought unafraid
And F is his Falchion (Poetic for Blade)
And F’s the Fine Feeling all Fearless Boys Feel
When they give a Fierce Pirate a taste of Cold Steel.

G is Old Glory

G is Old Glory—that Peter upreared,
When Hook in the Crocodile’s smile disappeared,
And the Decks were still wet with the terrible stains
Of Invisible Gore from the Pirate’s veins.

H stands for Hook

I’m sorry for H, tho’ I don’t call Hook mean
For wanting to Blow Up his own Magazine.
I’ve known a Good Author blow up, in a Huff,
A Magazine just for not printing his Stuff.

I’s for the Indian Girl

Peter Pan was too coy for the Indian Miss;
She sighed for his scalp—all she got was a kiss.

J is for John

J is for John (No, he hasn’t a Pain;
He is Red-Handed Jack of the Pirate Main).

K stands for a Kiss

K stands for a Kiss? Oh, stern featured K!
Who would have suspected—You’d leanings that way!
Peter called his a Thimble—(I think it sounds tame
To call Kisses Thimbles—but what’s in a Name!)

L is the Lion

L is the Lion who lashed his Fierce Tail,
And did Peter Tremble? did Peter turn Pale?
Not Much! ’Twas the Lion who moved to adjourn,
He couldn’t turn Tail, Peter left none to Turn.

M is for Michael

M is for Michael—ssssh!—whisper it low!
In Pirate Circles he’s called Blackbeard Joe!

N is for Napoleon and Nana

N is Napoleon—Mystic—Profound
And N is for Nana the Noble Nurse Hound—
Two wonderful natures—each great in his way,
One’s dead and the other is “Having his Day.”

O’s for Odds-fish!!

O’s for Odds-fish—the Pirate’s Oath.
To print such a word, Gentle Reader, I’m loth.
And should You be guilty of language so low,
I should have to stop calling you “Gentle,” you know.

P is for Peter

P is for Peter, and so are we all,
May he ever keep young and his Shadow stay Small.
Yet I think ’tis a pity the White House is Bann’d....