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Oh say have you seen at the Willows so green	A
So charming and rurally true	B
A singular bird with a manner absurd	C
Which they call the Australian Emeu	D
Have you	B
Ever seen this Australian Emeu	D
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It trots all around with its head on the ground	E
Or erects it quite out of your view	B
And the ladies all cry when its figure they spy	F
Oh what a sweet pretty Emeu	D
Oh do	B
Just look at that lovely Emeu	D
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One day to this spot when the weather was hot	G
Came Matilda Hortense Fortescue	H
And beside her there came a youth of high name	D
Augustus Florell Montague	H
The two	H
Both loved that wild foreign Emeu	D
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With two loaves of bread then they fed it instead	I
Of the flesh of the white Cockatoo	H
Which once was its food in that wild neighborhood	J
Where ranges the sweet Kangaroo	H
That too	H
Is game for the famous Emeu	D
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Old saws and gimlets but its appetite whets	K
Like the world famous bark of Peru	H
There's nothing so hard that the bird will discard	L
And nothing its taste will eschew	H
That you	H
Can give that long legged Emeu	D
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The time slipped away in this innocent play	M
When up jumped the bold Montague	H
Where's that specimen pin that I gayly did win	N
In raffle and gave unto you	H
Fortescue	H
No word spoke the guilty Emeu	D
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Quick tell me his name whom thou gavest that same	D
Ere these hands in thy blood I imbrue	H
Nay dearest she cried as she clung to his side	O
I'm innocent as that Emeu	D
Adieu	H
He replied Miss M H Fortescue	H
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Down she dropped at his feet all as white as a sheet	P
As wildly he fled from her view	H
He thought 'twas her sin for he knew not the pin	N
Had been gobbled up by the Emeu	D
All through	H
The voracity of that Emeu	D

Bret Harte

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