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Long ago in a poultry yard	A
One dull November morn	B
Beneath a motherly soft wing	C
A little goose was born	B
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Who straightway peeped out of the shell	D
To view the world beyond	E
Longing at once to sally forth	F
And paddle in the pond	E
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Oh be not rash her father said	G
A mild Socratic bird	H
Her mother begged her not to stray	I
With many a warning word	H
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But little goosey was perverse	J
And eagerly did cry	K
I've got a lovely pair of wings	L
Of course I ought to fly	K
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In vain parental cacklings	L
In vain the cold sky's frown	M
Ambitious goosey tried to soar	N
But always tumbled down	M
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The farmyard jeered at her attempts	L
The peacocks screamed Oh fie	O
You're only a domestic goose	L
So don't pretend to fly	K
	-
Great cock a doodle from his perch	P
Crowed daily loud and clear	Q
Stay in the puddle foolish bird	H
That is your proper sphere	Q
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The ducks and hens said one and all	R
In gossip by the pool	S
Our children never play such pranks	L
My dear that fowl's a fool	S
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The owls came out and flew about	T
Hooting above the rest	U
No useful egg was ever hatched	V
From transcendental nest	U
	-
Good little goslings at their play	I
And well conducted chicks	L
Were taught to think poor goosey's flights	L
Were naughty ill bred tricks	L
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They were content to swim and scratch	W
And not at all inclined	X
For any wild goose chase in search	P
Of something undefined	X
	-
Hard times she had as one may guess	L
That young aspiring bird	H
Who still from every fall arose	L
Saddened but undeterred	H
	-
She knew she was no nightingale	Y
Yet spite of much abuse	L
She longed to help and cheer the world	Z
Although a plain gray goose	L
	-
She could not sing she could not fly	K
Nor even walk with grace	L
And all the farmyard had declared	A2
A puddle was her place	L
	-
But something stronger than herself	O
Would cry Go on go on	B2
Remember though an humble fowl	C2
You're cousin to a swan	B2
	-
So up and down poor goosey went	D2
A busy hopeful bird	H
Searched many wide unfruitful fields	L
And many waters stirred	H
	-
At length she came unto a stream	E2
Most fertile of all Niles	L
Where tuneful birds might soar and sing	C
Among the leafy isles	L
	-
Here did she build a little nest	U
Beside the waters still	F2
Where the parental goose could rest	U
Unvexed by any bill	F2
	-
And here she paused to smooth her plumes	L
Ruffled by many plagues	L
When suddenly arose the cry	K
This goose lays golden eggs	L
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At once the farmyard was agog	G2
The ducks began to quack	H2
Prim Guinea fowls relenting called	I2
Come back come back come back	H2
	-
Great chanticleer was pleased to give	O
A patronizing crow	J2
And the contemptuous biddies clucked	I2
I wish my chicks did so	J2
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The peacocks spread their shining tails	L
And cried in accents soft	I2
We want to know you gifted one	K2
Come up and sit aloft	I2
	-
Wise owls awoke and gravely said	I2
With proudly swelling breasts	L
Rare birds have always been evoked	I2
From transcendental nests	L
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News hunting turkeys from afar	L2
Now ran with all thin legs	L
To gobble facts and fictions of	O
The goose with golden eggs	L
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But best of all the little fowls	L
Still playing on the shore	N
Soft downy chicks and goslings gay	I
Chirped out Dear Goose lay more	N
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But goosey all these weary years	L
Had toiled like any ant	I2
And wearied out she now replied	I2
My little dears I can't	I2
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When I was starving half this corn	B
Had been of vital use	L
Now I am surfeited with food	I2
Like any Strasbourg goose	L
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So to escape too many friends	L
Without uncivil strife	O
She ran to the Atlantic pond	I2
And paddled for her life	O
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Soon up among the grand old Alps	L
She found two blessed things	L
The health she had so nearly lost	I2
And rest for weary limbs	L
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But still across the briny deep	M2
Couched in most friendly words	L
Came prayers for letters tales or verse	L
From literary birds	L
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Whereat the renovated fowl	C2
With grateful thanks profuse	L
Took from her wing a quill and wrote	I2
This lay of a Golden Goose	L

Louisa May Alcott

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