News at Eleven: "Timmy was a paddle-boat,

sound as a gong,/Not a worm in his timbers, fresh paint all over./He was hale as a whale and twice as strong,/And he sailed on the peaceful river," writes [Ted] Hughes. But--unfortunately for Timmy and his paddles--it's propellers that are "now in fashion", and his captain quits "with the cook and the cat/And a whole six months' rum ration."

from The Guardian: Lost Ted Hughes children's poem discovered

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