Frog poem
Dates: 5/2/01,5:36 PM through 5/2/01,8:02 PM (4 postings)
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FROM: LaVonne Beach <[removed]@selco.lib.mn.us>
REC'D: 5/2/01, 5:36 PM
I have looked on Poem Finder with no success. Any ideas?
LaVonne Beach
LaCrescent Public Library
FROM: "M.S." <[removed]@mail.creativeonline.com>
REC'D: 5/2/01, 6:39 PM
This one is the same, but it's a can of milk rather than cream.
http://www.riveroaks.org/devotional/1999/110299_quit.html
Hope this helps,
Maureen Shields
New City Library
LaVonne Beach wrote:
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> I have an patron (60ish) looking for a poem that her grandmother use to
> recite to her as a child. The poem is about frogs that fell in a milk
> pail. She believes that one line went something like "they kicked and
> swam and kicked and swam". All of the frogs give up and perish but one
> little frog keeps kicking and makes a pad of butter.
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> I have looked on Poem Finder with no success. Any ideas?
>
> LaVonne Beach
> LaCrescent Public Library
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FROM: Spring Quick <[removed]@ccrls.org>
REC'D: 5/2/01, 8:02 PM
Two Frogs In Cream
Two frogs fell into a can of cream,
Or so I've heard it told;
The sides of the can were shiny and steep.
The cream was deep and cold.
"O, what's the use?" croaked No. 1.
"Tis fate; no help's around.
Goodbye, my friends! Goodbye, sad world!"
And weeping still, he drowned.
But Number 2, of sterner stuff,
Dog-paddled in surprise,
The while he wiped his creamy face
And dried his creamy eyes.
"I'll swim awhile, at least," he said-
Or so I've heard he said;
"It really wouldn't help the world
If one more frog were dead."
An hour or two he kicked and swam,
Not once he stopped to mutter,
But kicked and kicked and swam and kicked.
Then hopped out, via butter!
-T.C. Hamlet
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Spring Quick, Adult Services Librarian
Silver Falls Library District
410 South Water Street
Silverton, Oregon 97381
(503)873-8796
FROM: Tonya McClain <[removed]@kokomo.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 5/2/01, 8:02 PM
-----Original Message-----
From: Spring Quick [[removed]@ccrls.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 7:58 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: frog poem
I found this on the Internet:
Two Frogs In Cream
Two frogs fell into a can of cream,
Or so I've heard it told;
The sides of the can were shiny and steep.
The cream was deep and cold.
"O, what's the use?" croaked No. 1.
"Tis fate; no help's around.
Goodbye, my friends! Goodbye, sad world!"
And weeping still, he drowned.
But Number 2, of sterner stuff,
Dog-paddled in surprise,
The while he wiped his creamy face
And dried his creamy eyes.
"I'll swim awhile, at least," he said-
Or so I've heard he said;
"It really wouldn't help the world
If one more frog were dead."
An hour or two he kicked and swam,
Not once he stopped to mutter,
But kicked and kicked and swam and kicked.
Then hopped out, via butter!
-T.C. Hamlet
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Spring Quick, Adult Services Librarian
Silver Falls Library District
410 South Water Street
Silverton, Oregon 97381
(503)873-8796
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