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It is the king's highway that we are in and in this way it is that thou hast placed the lions BUNYAN	A
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What shut the gardens lock the latticed gate	B
Refuse the shilling and the Fellow's ticket	C
And hang a wooden notice up to state	B
On Sundays no admittance at this wicket	C
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The Birds the Beasts and all the Reptile race	D
Denied to friends and visitors till Monday	E
Now really this appears the common case	D
Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday	F
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	E
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The Gardens so unlike the ones we dub	G
Of Tea wherein the artisan carouses	D
Mere shrubberies without one drop of shrub	G
Wherefore should they be closed like public houses	D
No ale is vended at the wild Deer's Head	H
Nor rum nor gin not even of a Monday	E
The Lion is not carved or gilt or red	H
And does not send out porter of a Sunday	F
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	E
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The bear denied the Leopard under locks	D
As if his spots would give contagious fevers	D
The Beaver close as hat within its box	D
So different from other Sunday beavers	D
The Birds invisible the Gnaw way Rats	D
The Seal hermetically seal'd till Monday	E
The Monkey tribe the Family of Cats	D
We visit other families on Sunday	F
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	E
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What is the brute profanity that shocks	D
The super sensitively serious feeling	I
The Kangaroo is he not orthodox	D
To bend his legs the way he does in kneeling	I
Was strict Sir Andrew in his sabbath coat	J
Struck all a heap to see a Coati Mundi	E
Or did the Kentish Plumtree faint to note	J
The Pelicans presenting bills on Sunday	F
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	E
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What feature has repulsed the serious set	K
What error in the bestial birth or breeding	I
To put their tender fancies on the fret	K
One thing is plain it is not in the feeding	I
Some stiffish people think that smoking joints	D
Are carnal sins 'twixt Saturday and Monday	E
But then the beasts are pious on these points	D
For they all eat cold dinners on a Sunday	F
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	E
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What change comes o'er the spirit of the place	D
As if transmuted by some spell organic	L
Turns fell Hy na of the Ghoulish race	D
The Snake pro tempore the true Satanic	L
Do Irish minds whose theory allows	D
That now and then Good Friday falls on Monday	E
Do Irish minds suppose that Indian Cows	D
Are wicked Bulls of Bashan on a Sunday	F
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	E
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There are some moody fellows not a few	M
Who turn'd by Nature with a gloomy bias	D
Renounce black devils to adopt the blue	M
And think when they are dismal they are pious	D
Is't possible that Pug's untimely fun	A
Has sent the brutes to Coventry till Monday	E
Or p'rhaps some animal no serious one	A
Was overheard in laughter on a Sunday	F
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	E
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What dire offence have serious Fellows found	N
To raise their spleen against the Regent's spinney	E
Were charitable boxes handed round	N
And would not Guinea Pigs subscribe their guinea	E
Perchance the Demoiselle refused to moult	N
The feathers in her head at least till Monday	N
Or did the Elephant unseemly bolt	N
A tract presented to be read on Sunday	N
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	N
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At whom did Leo struggle to get loose	D
Who mourns through Monkey tricks his damaged clothing	I
Who has been hiss'd by the Canadian Goose	D
On whom did Llama spit in utter loathing	I
Some Smithfield saint did jealous feelings tell	O
To keep the Puma out of sight till Monday	N
Because he prey'd extempore as well	O
As certain wild Itinerants on Sunday	N
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	N
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To me it seems that in the oddest way	N
Begging the pardon of each rigid Socius	D
Our would be Keepers of the Sabbath day	N
Are like the Keepers of the brutes ferocious	D
As soon the Tiger might expect to stalk	P
About the grounds from Saturday till Monday	N
As any harmless man to take a walk	P
If saints could clap him in a cage on Sunday	N
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	N
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In spite of all hypocrisy can spin	Q
As surely as I am a Christian scion	A
I cannot think it is a mortal sin	Q
Unless he's loose to look upon a lion	A
I really think that one may go perchance	D
To see a bear as guiltless as on Monday	N
That is provided that he did not dance	D
Bruin's no worse than bakin' on a Sunday	N
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	N
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In spite of all the fanatic compiles	D
I cannot think the day a bit diviner	R
Because no children with forestalling smiles	D
Throng happy to the gates of Eden Minor	R
It is not plain to my poor faith at least	N
That what we christen Natural on Monday	N
The wondrous History of bird and beast	N
Can be Unnatural because it's Sunday	N
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	N
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Whereon is sinful fantasy to work	S
The Dove the wing'd Columbus of man's haven	A
The tender Love Bird or the filial Stork	T
The punctual Crane the providential Raven	A
The Pelican whose bosom feeds her young	U
Nay must we cut from Saturday till Monday	N
That feather'd marvel with a human tongue	U
Because she does not preach upon a Sunday	N
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	N
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The busy Beaver that sagacious beast	N
The Sheep that own'd an Oriental Shepherd	N
That Desert ship the Camel of the East	N
The horn'd Rhinoceros the spotted Leopard	N
The creatures of the Great Creator's hand	N
Are surely sights for better days than Monday	N
The elephant although he wears no band	N
Has he no sermon in his trunk for Sunday	N
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	N
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What harm if men who burn the midnight oil	V
Weary of frame and worn and wan in feature	R
Seek once a week their spirits to assoil	V
And snatch a glimpse of Animated Nature	R
Better it were if in his best of suits	D
The artisan who goes to work on Monday	N
Should spend a leisure hour among the brutes	D
Than make a beast of his own self on Sunday	N
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	N
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Why zounds what raised so Protestant a fuss	D
Omit the zounds for which I make apology	N
But that the Papists like some fellows thus	D
Had somehow mixed up Dens with their theology	N
Is Brahma's Bull a Hindoo god at home	W
A papal bull to be tied up till Monday	N
Or Leo like his namesake Pope of Rome	W
That there is such a dread of them on Sunday	N
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	N
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Spirit of Kant have we not had enough	X
To make religion sad and sour and snubbish	Y
But Saints Zoological must cant their stuff	X
As vessels cant their ballast rattling rubbish	Y
Once let the sect triumphant to their text	N
Shut Nero up from Saturday till Monday	N
And sure as fate they will deny us next	N
To see the Dandelions on a Sunday	N
But what is your opinion Mrs Grundy	N

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