Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс)
The Ah Goo Tongue
The queerest languages known to man, Sanscrit, Hebrew, Hindoostan, Are all translated and made as free And comprehensive as A B C. Yet the oldest language talked or sung, The strange mysterious Ah Goo tongue, The royal language of Babyland No man living can understand. Every soul in the world to-day Was one time anchored in Babyland Bay, And quarantined there for a year or more Before he even could step on shore. And everybody in Babyland Bay Talks the Ah Goo tongue, so people say, But once on land--why not a word Do they understand of it when 'tis heard. For the fairy rulers of Babyland Who guard the kingdom on every hand, Have willed that no one shall keep the key Who crosses into the Grown-up Sea. So the sweet court language has never been made A common parlance of strife or trade, But is kept in the kingdom where natives come Versed in the language of Babydom. They are all of them royal and that is how The Grown-up people all kneel and bow, When they hear that language talked or sung-- The strange mysterious Ah Goo tongue.
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