Danger!
Ink, ink! What do you think!
You’re sure to be stained, if you play with the ink!
You’re sure to get black, if you play with the ink-well,
Before you begin it, just stop once, and think well!
All over your fingers, all over your face,
All over your clothes, and all over the place!
Your mother’ll be angry, your father’ll say, “There!
I said not to touch it; you said you’d take care!”
When Goops are so mischievous, they have to drink
Forty-four dozen bottles of raven black ink!