The sound of rhyming

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Today in Celebration of Dr. Seuss Birthday, the Seuss Estate released a rare collaboration of Dr. Seuss with an iconic duo. Here is the Sounds of Rhyming, by Simon, Garfunkel and Seuss:

Hello my friend Sam-I-Am
Do you want Green Eggs and Ham?
I can make them in the pan for you
A slice of bacon and some liver too
And the breakfast that is causing you such pain
Still remains
Within the sounds of rhyming

In restless dreams of cats in hats
Narrow men in ankle spats
Near where Horton Found a Who
One Fish, Two Fish, One Red One Blue
When I said Green Eggs, I would not take a bite
He said I might
Within the sounds that rhyming

And then the Elephant he saw
Ten thousand Who there, maybe more
Who were talking without rhyming
Horton heard them without listening
Turtles mountains for Yertle to use for a chair
High in the air
Disturb the sound of rhyming

"Sam-I-Am, I do not know
How a mound of Turtles grow
Hear my rhymes that I might get through
From Mulberry Street where I made my debut”
But my words, had messages as well
And echoed
In the words a rhyming

And the Egg the lazy Mayzie laid
On top of which the Elephant stayed
And the books spoke out with their meaning
In the words and the drawings
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are forever in a children’s mind
no thoughts confined”
And whispered in the sounds of rhyming