A friend of mine is looking for a poem she remembers her mother reading to her as a child. Does anyone recognize the pieces of this one? ************ My Mother thought the author of this was Robert Louis Stevenson. Don't know if it was in a collection of his poems or in a collection of poems by different poets for children. Here is what I can remember - I was only four or five. The Title is not known. "Once upon a time they say, the rain came down day by day. Pouring, pouring from the sky till not a spot on earth was dry. So Noah built a boat so wide that all the animals could fit inside. .........(Something about) Two by two they came......... .........and he called them by name.............. .........Lions, elephants, kangaroos............. .........(Ending with)..........And who do you think almost missed the boat. .........Nobody else but a little gray goat".