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THERE'S no menagerie I vow	A
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Excels my Lily's at this minute	B
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She keeps the strangest creatures in it	C
And catches them she knows not how	A
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Oh how they hop and run and rave	D
And their clipp'd pinions wildly wave	D
Poor princes who must all endure	E
The pangs of love that nought can cure	E
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What is the fairy's name Is't Lily Ask not me	F
Give thanks to Heaven if she's unknown to thee	F
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Oh what a cackling what a shrieking	G
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When near the door she takes her stand	H
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With her food basket in her hand	H
Oh what a croaking what a squeaking	G
Alive all the trees and the bushes appear	I
While to her feet whole troops draw near	I
The very fish within the water clear	I
Splash with impatience and their heads protrude	J
And then she throws around the food	J
With such a look the very gods delighting	G
To say nought of beasts There begins then a biting	G
A picking a pecking a sipping	G
And each o'er the legs of another is tripping	G
And pushing and pressing and flapping	G
And chasing and fuming and snapping	G
And all for one small piece of bread	K
To which though dry her fair hands give a taste	L
As though it in ambrosia had been plac'd	L
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And then her look the tone	M
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With which she calls Pipi Pipi	N
Would draw Jove's eagle from his throne	M
Yes Venus' turtle doves I wean	O
And the vain peacock e'en	P
Would come I swear	Q
Soon as that tone had reach'd them through the air	Q
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E'en from a forest dark had she	F
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Enticed a bear unlick'd ill bred	K
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And by her wiles alluring led	K
To join the gentle company	F
Until as tame as they was he	F
Up to a certain point be't understood	R
How fair and ah how good	R
She seem'd to be I would have drain'd my blood	S
To water e'en her flow'rets sweet	T
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Thou sayest I Who How And where	Q
Well to be plain good Sirs I am the bear	Q
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In a net apron caught alas	U
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Chain'd by a silk thread at her feet	T
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But how this wonder came to pass	U
I'll tell some day if ye are curious	V
Just now my temper's much too furious	V
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Ah when I'm in the corner plac'd	L
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And hear afar the creatures snapping	G
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And see the flipping and the flapping	G
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I turn around	W
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With growling sound	W
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And backward run a step in haste	L
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And look around	W
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With growling sound	W
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Then run again a step in haste	L
And to my former post go round	W
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But suddenly my anger grows	X
A mighty spirit fills my nose	X
My inward feelings all revolt	Y
A creature such as thou a dolt	Y
Pipi a squirrel able nuts to crack	Z
I bristle up my shaggy back	Z
Unused a slave to be	F
I'm laughed at by each trim and upstart tree	F
To scorn The bowling green I fly	A2
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With neatly mown and well kept grass	U
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The box makes faces as I pass	U
Into the darkest thicket hasten I	A2
Hoping to 'scape from the ring	G
Over the palings to spring	G
Vainly I leap and climb	B2
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I feel a leaden spell	C2
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That pinions me as well	C2
And when I'm fully wearied out in time	B2
I lay me down beside some mock cascade	Y
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And roll myself half dead and foam and cry	A2
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And ah no Oreads hear my sigh	A2
Excepting those of china made	Y
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But ah with sudden power	D2
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In all my members blissful feelings reign	E2
'Tis she who singeth yonder in her bower	D2
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I hear that darling darling voice again	P
The air is warm and teems with fragrance clear	I
Sings she perchance for me alone to hear	F2
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I haste and trample down the shrubs amain	P
The trees make way the bushes all retreat	Y
And so the beast is lying at her feet	Y
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She looks at him The monster's droll enough	G2
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He's for a bear too mild	Y
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Yet for a dog too wild	Y
So shaggy clumsy rough	G2
Upon his back she gently strokes her foot	Y
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He thinks himself in Paradise	H2
What feelings through his seven senses shoot	Y
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But she looks on with careless eyes	I2
I lick her soles and kiss her shoes	J2
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As gently as a bear well may	K2
Softly I rise and with a clever ruse	J2
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Leap on her knee On a propitious day	K2
She suffers it my ears then tickles she	F
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And hits me a hard blow in wanton play	K2
I growl with new born ecstasy	F
Then speaks she in a sweet vain jest I wot	K2
Allons lout doux eh la menotte	K2
Et faites serviteur	F2
Comme un joli seigneur	F2
Thus she proceeds with sport and glee	F
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Hope fills the oft deluded beast	K2
Yet if one moment he would lazy be	F
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Her fondness all at once hath ceas'd	K2
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She doth a flask of balsam fire possess	L2
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Sweeter than honey bees can make	M2
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One drop of which she'll on her finger take	M2
When soften'd by his love and faithfulness	L2
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Wherewith her monster's raging thirst to slake	M2
Then leaves me to myself and flies at last	K2
And I unbound yet prison'd fast	K2
By magic follow in her train	P
Seek for her tremble fly again	P
The hapless creature thus tormenteth she	F
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Regardless of his pleasure or his woe	N2
Ha oft half open'd does she leave the door for me	F
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And sideways looks to learn if I will fly or no	N2
And I Oh gods your hands alone	P
Can end the spell that's o'er me thrown	P
Free me and gratitude my heart will fill	O2
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And yet from heaven ye send me down no aid	K2
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Not quite in vain doth life my limbs pervade	K2
I feel it Strength is left me still	O2

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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