Forgiven                           
 
 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 mybeetle out -
 
                                           She went and let my beetle out -

                                                                         and beetle ran away.

 
  She said she didn't mean it , and I never  Thought she  did
    She said she wanted matches ,
        and she just took off the lid ,
           She said that she was sorry , but its difficult
              to catch an excited sort of beetle you've
                 mistaken for a match .
 
  She said that she was sorry , but its difficult to catch
 An excited sort of beetle you've mistaken for a match

She said that she was sorry , and that I really mustn't mind
As theres lots and lots of beetles she's certain we
      could find ,
If we looked about the garden for the holes where
      beetles hid -
And wd'd get another match box 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 with 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 must be Me ,
 

And he had  a sort of look as if he thought he ought to say:

" I'm very , very sorry that I try to run away ."

And Nanny's very sorry too for you-know-what-she-did ,
And sh'e 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 .
 

' The Christopher Robin Verses ' A.A. Milne                                                         
This poem is for Thea and Christopher from their Nanny , Robin  xxxx