"The Scroobious Pip" is a nonsense verse poem left unfinished by Edward Lear at the time of his death in 1888.
In 1872, Lear began work on "The Scroobious Pip", but it was unfinished by the time of his death.
[1] In 1968, the poem was completed by American poet Ogden Nash, who had been asked to finish the work.
[1] His contributions were accompanied by illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert and printed together in a large elephant folio format.
Harvard University Press published Teapots And Quails, a small book of Lear's poetry that includes "The Scroobious Pip".