快適な髭

髭が自慢の男が叫ぶ。
「なんたる悲劇だ。夜更かし中年と早起き熟女、悪戯小僧が四人と若い娘、みんなおれの髭の中に居座っちまった」

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'

エドワード・リア『ナンセンスの絵本』より