# Quote — Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

> They sailed away for a year and a day
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> To the land where the bong-tree grows.

- Author: [Edward Lear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-lear.md)
- Book: [The Owl and the Pussycat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-lear/the-owl-and-the-pussycat.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Lear#The_Owl_and_the_Pussycat_(1871)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-lear/the-owl-and-the-pussycat/they-sailed-away

## More from this book

> "Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
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> Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-lear/the-owl-and-the-pussycat/dear-pig-are.md)

> They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
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> Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
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> And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
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> They danced by the light of the moon,
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> The moon,
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> The moon,
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> They danced by the light of the moon.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-lear/the-owl-and-the-pussycat/they-dined-on-mince.md)

> Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
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> How charmingly sweet you sing!
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> O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
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> But what shall we do for a ring?"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-lear/the-owl-and-the-pussycat/pussy-said-to-the.md)