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A lawyer had a legal mouse	A
A naughty one they say	B
That took possession of his house	A
And papers ev'ry day	B
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His books and records it would gnaw	C
Without regard for loss	D
Its disrespect and lack of awe	E
Just kept the owner cross	D
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When no revenge the man could get	F
His anger blazed so high	G
Till he declared when next they met	F
The mouse would surely die	G
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The murder all the world should know	H
He planned with ire intense	I
To strike the mouse a fatal blow	H
And call it self defence	I
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One day the desk he opened wide	J
The mouse in regal state	K
Sat in a pigeon hole inside	J
In style the scene was great	K
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A stroke the lawyer at it gave	L
A star it made to flee	M
Into a hole its life to save	L
To find security	M
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When he had guarded well the hole	N
It scrambled for the floor	O
Again he kept it from the goal	N
Its life endangered more	O
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The door of hope he seemed to close	P
Upon the enemy	M
Its feelings then nobody knows	Q
Its longings to be free	M
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Up through his sleeve it made a break	R
In search of freedom sweet	S
His arm he then began to shake	R
To bring it to his feet	S
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His cuff was thrown away no doubt	T
The button had to go	H
His coat and vest he tore about	T
The mouse had scared him so	H
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All o'er his body too he felt	U
The mouse though such a prig	V
Himself he then began to pelt	U
To yell and dance a jig	V
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His thoughts he threw around his will	W
The same he had not made	X
He felt uncertain which would kill	W
Such terror was displayed	X
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The neighbors and the police heard	Y
The noise of that affray	M
And to the spot without a word	Y
They quickly made their way	B
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Upon his back between his shirts	Z
The little mouse was found	A2
'Twas hard amid' so many flirts	Z
To bring it to the ground	A2
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Out of his coat upon advice	B2
He came with haste replete	S
The room door opened in a trice	B2
And made good his retreat	S
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The mouse was taken from its place	C2
Of hiding and of dread	D2
So painful was the last embrace	C2
It fell down by him dead	D2
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Then to the crowd the lawyer said	D2
'Of such my friends beware	M
Mine enemy the mouse is dead	D2
Such things we all can spare	M
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'The killing in my case was one	E2
Of self defence 'tis true	M
And on the whole I've only done	E2
As other men would do	M
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'But still my hands are red with blood	F2
That mandate 'Do not kill '	-
Prevents the waters of the flood	F2
From washing off the ill '	-
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To all who shall the story read	D2
And many will I trust	G2
Don't kill a helpless mouse I plead	H2
Unless the killing's just	G2

Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer

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