My old man said,'Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' Off went the cart with the home packed in it, I walked behind with my old cock linnet. But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam. You can't trust the'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.

-Collins, Charles
  'Don't Dilly-Dally on the Way' (with Fred Leigh).

And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.

-Lear, Edward
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Jumblies'.

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

-Lee, Laurie
  Cider With Rosie,'First Light'.

For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.

-Patchen, Kenneth
  FirstWill andTestament,'The Character of Love Seen as a Search for the Lost'.