From St. Nicholas, 1889.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.

From St. Nicholas, 1891.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.

Cute that this poem ends with a cat-purr-sounding "myrrh"!  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1930.

From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.  We previously saw this version.

From St. Nicholas Songs, 1885.

From Such Nonsense! by Carolyn Wells, 1918.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.

From St. Nicholas, 1890. 

From St. Nicholas, 1890. 

From Junior English Activities Book Three by Hatfield, Lewis, Besig & Borchers (undated, c. 1938).

From Barnard College's 1903 yearbook.

You've seen folks black out words in other people's texts, but Rabbi Seymour Krutman included blanks when he wrote this quatrain.  From "Meditations in the Night," in Yeshiva University's 1944 yearbook

From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.  We previously saw this version.

From St. Nicholas, 1892.

Today's sheep playing cribbage are from St. Nicholas, 1891.

"The word is the way something floats which cannot be seen.  The word is the call of the tribe from down under the water.  The word is the thing the wind says to the dead.  The word is the white candle at the foot of the throne. (Kenneth Patchen)."  From Wheaton College's 1970 yearbook.

From St. Nicholas, 1891.

Today's cat waltzing with a gray rat is from St. Nicholas, 1891.