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The Dong with a Luminous Nose
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(1877) Nonsense song by Edward *Lear about a lovesick Dong who has strapped a lantern on his nose so that he can roam the great Gromboolian plain by night, searching for his beloved Jumbly Girl, 'with her sky-blue hands, and her sea-green hair'. She had mysteriously arrived and then departed again with the other Jumblies, 'who went to sea in a sieve'. An earlier nonsense song by Lear, The Jumblies (1871), describes their 20-year journey.
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