Said Conrad Cornelius o\u2019Donald o\u2019Dell,
\nMy very young friend who is learning to spell:
\n\u201cThe A is for Ape. And B is for Bear.
\nThe C is for Camel. The H is for Hare
\nThe M is for Mouse. And the R is for Rat.\u201d
\n\u201cI know all the twenty-six letters like that\u2026
\n\u2026 Through to Z is for Zebra. I know them all well.\u201d
\nSaid Conrad Cornelius o\u2019Donald o\u2019Dell.
\n\u201cSo now I know everything anyone knows.
\nFrom beginning to end. From the start to the close.
\nBecause Z is as far as the alphabet goes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then he almost fell flat on his face on the floor
\nWhen I picked up the chalk and drew one letter more!
\nA letter he never had dreamed of before!
\nAnd I said, \u201cYou can stop, if you want, with the Z.
\nBecause most people stop with the Z.
\nBut not me!!!
\nIn the places I go, there are things that I see
\nThat I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
\nI\u2019m telling you this \u2018cause you\u2019re one of my friends.
\nMy alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!\u201d
\n\u201cMy alphabet starts with this letter called YUZZ.
\nIt\u2019s the letter I use to spell YUZZ-a-ma-TUZZ.
\nYou\u2019ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found
\nOnce you go beyond Z and start poking around!
\nSo, on beyond Zebra!
\nExplore!
\nLike Columbus!
\nDiscover new letters!
\nLike WUM is for Wumbus,
\nMy high-spouting whale who lives high on a hill
\nAnd who never comes down \u2018till it\u2019s time to refill.
\nSo, on beyond Z! It\u2019s high time you were shown
\nThat you really don\u2019t know all there is to be known.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen just step a step further past Wum is for Wumbus
\nAnd there you\u2019ll find UM. And the Um is for Umbus
\nA sort of Cow, with one head and one tail,
\nBut to milk this great cow you need more than one pail!
\nShe has ninety-eight teats that give milk quite nicely.
\nPerhaps ninety-nine. I forget just precisely.
\nAnd, boy! She is something most people don\u2019t see.
\nBecause most people stop at the Z
\nBut not me!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you stay home with Zebra,
\nYou\u2019re stuck in a rut.
\nBut on beyond Zebra,
\nYou\u2019re anything but!
\nWhen you go beyond Zebra,
\nWho knows\u2026?
\nThere\u2019s no telling
\nWhat wonderful things
\nYou might find yourself spelling!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLike QUAN is for Quandary, who lives on a shelf
\nIn a hole in the ocean alone by himself
\nAnd he worries, each day, from the dawn\u2019s early light
\nAnd he worries, just worries, far into the night.
\nHe just stands there and worries. He simply can\u2019t stop\u2026
\nIs his top-side his bottom? Or bottom-side his top?\u201d<\/p>\n
So you see!
\nThere\u2019s no end
\nTo the things you might know,
\nDepending how far beyond Zebra you go!<\/p>\n
The places I took him!
\nI tried hard to tell
\nYoung Conrad Cornelius o\u2019Donald o\u2019Dell
\nA few brand-new wonderful words he might spell.
\nI led him around and I tried hard to show
\nThere are things beyond Z that most people don\u2019t know.
\nI took him past Zebra. As far as I could.
\nAnd I think, perhaps, maybe I did him some good\u2026<\/p>\n
Because, finally, he said:
\n\u201cThis is really great stuff!
\nAnd I guess the old alphabet
\nISN\u201dT enough!\u201d
\nNOW the letters he uses are something to see!
\nMost people stop at the Z\u2026
\nBut not HE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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