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A bear having spread him a notable feast	A
Invited a famishing fox to the place	B
'I've killed me ' quoth he 'an edible beast	A
As ever distended the girdle of priest	A
With 'spread of religion ' or 'inward grace '	C
To my den I conveyed her	D
I bled her and flayed her	D
I hung up her skin to dry	E
Then laid her naked to keep her cool	F
On a slab of ice from the frozen pool	F
And there we will eat her you and I '	C
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The fox accepts and away they walk	G
Beguiling the time with courteous talk	G
You'd ne'er have suspected to see them smile	H
The bear was thinking the blessed while	H
How when his guest should be off his guard	I
With feasting hard	I
He'd give him a 'wipe' that would spoil his style	H
You'd never have thought to see them bow	J
The fox was reflecting deeply how	J
He would best proceed to circumvent	K
His host and prig	L
The entire pig	L
Or other bird to the same intent	K
When Strength and Cunning in love combine	M
Be sure 't is to more than merely dine	M
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The while these biters ply the lip	N
A mile ahead the muse shall skip	N
The poet's purpose she best may serve	O
Inside the den if she have the nerve	O
Behold laid out in dark recess	P
A ghastly goat in stark undress	P
Pallid and still on her gelid bed	Q
And indisputably very dead	Q
Her skin depends from a couple of pins	R
And here the most singular statement begins	R
For all at once the butchered beast	A
With easy grace for one deceased	A
Upreared her head	Q
Looked round and said	Q
Very distinctly for one so dead	Q
'The nights are sharp and the sheets are thin	S
I find it uncommonly cold herein '	-
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I answer not how this was wrought	T
All miracles surpass my thought	T
They're vexing say you and dementing	L
Peace peace they're none of my inventing	L
But lest too much of mystery	U
Embarrass this true history	U
I'll not relate how that this goat	V
Stood up and stamped her feet to inform'em	W
With what's the word I mean to warm'em	W
Nor how she plucked her rough capote	V
From off the pegs where Bruin threw it	X
And o'er her quaking body drew it	X
Nor how each act could so befall	Y
I'll only swear she did them all	Y
Then lingered pensive in the grot	X
As if she something had forgot	X
Till a humble voice and a voice of pride	X
Were heard in murmurs of love outside	X
Then like a rocket set aflight	X
She sprang and streaked it for the light	X
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Ten million million years and a day	X
Have rolled since these events away	X
But still the peasant at fall of night	X
Belated therenear is oft affright	X
By sounds of a phantom bear in flight	X
A breaking of branches under the hill	Z
The noise of a going when all is still	Z
And hens asleep on the perch they say	X
Cackle sometimes in a startled way	X
As if they were dreaming a dream that mocks	A2
The lope and whiz of a fleeting fox	A2
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Half we're taught and teach to youth	B2
And praise by rote	X
Is not but merely stands for truth	B2
So of my goat	X
She's merely designed to represent	X
The truth 'immortal' to this extent	X
Dead she may be and skinned frappe	N
Hid in a dreadful den away	X
Prey to the Churches any will do	X
Except the Church of me and you	X
The simplest miracle even then	C2
Will get her up and about again	C2

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