Winnie The Pooh - Phoem of "We Are Six"

When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three
I was hardly me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was Five,
I was just alive.
But now I am Six,
I'm as clever as clever,
So I think I'll be six now for ever
and ever.
The End
I found a little beetle, so that beetle
was his name,
And I called him Alexander and he
answered just the same.
I put him in a matchbox, and I kept
him all the day...
And Nanny let my beetle out
Yes, Nanny let my beetle out
She went and let my beetle out-
And beetle ran away.
She said she didn't mean it, and I
never said she did,
She said she wanted matches, and
she just took off the lid
She said that she was sorry, but it's
difficult to catch
An excited sort of beetle you've
mistaken for a match.
She said that she was sorry, and I
really mustn't mind
As there's lots and lots of beetles
which she's certain we could find
If we looked about the garden for
the holes where beetles hid-
And we'd get another matchbox,
and write BEETLE on the lid.
We went to all the places which a
beetle might be near,
And we made the sort of noises
which a beetle likes to hear,
And I saw a kind of something, and I
gave a sort of shout:
"A beetle-house and Alexander
Beetle coming out!"
It was Alexander Beetle I'm as
certain as can be
And he had a sort of look as if he
thought it might be ME,
And he had a kind of look as if he
thought he ought to say:
"I'm very, very sorry that I tried to
run away."
And Nanny's very sorry too, for you
know what she did,
And she's writing ALEXANDER very
blackly on the lid,
So Nan and me are friends, because
it's difficult to catch
An excited Alexander you've
mistaken for a match.
Forgiven (affectionately also
known as Alexander Beetle)