The crocodile, with cunning smile, sat in the dentist’s chair.
He said, “Right here and everywhere my teeth require repair.”
The dentist’s face was turning white. He quivered, quaked and shook.
He muttered, “I suppose I’m going to have to take a look.”
“I want you”, Crocodile declared, “to do the back ones first.
The molars at the very back are easily the worst.””

(Roald Dahl in The Dentist and the Crocodile)
Visé (B)

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“Creak, little wood thing, creak,
When I touch you with elbow or knee;
That is the way you speak
Of one who gave you to me!

You, little table, she brought –
Brought me with her own hand,
As she looked at me with a thought
That I did not understand.

– Whoever owns it anon,
And hears it, will never know
What a history hangs upon
This creak from long ago.”

(Thomas Hardy The little old table)
Liège (B)

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“Stone, steel, dominions pass,
Faith, too, no wonder;
So leave alone the grass
That I am under.”

(A.E. Housman in More poems no. 24)
Eschweiler (D)

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“Call me don’t be afraid, you can call me
Maybe it’s late, but just call me
Tell me, and I’ll be around”

(Petula Clark in Call me)
Eschweiler (D)

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