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A Fantasy dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver	A
Henderson ten years old	B
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The Fantasy shows how tiger hearts are the cause of war in	C
all ages It shows how the mammoth forces may be either	A
friends or enemies of the struggle for peace It shows how	D
the dream of peace is unconquerable and eternal	E
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Peace of the Heart my own for long	F
Whose shining hair the May winds fan	G
Making it tangled as they can	G
A mystery still star shining yet	H
Through ancient ages known to me	I
And now once more reborn with me	I
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This is the tale of the Tiger Tree	I
A hundred times the height of a man	G
Lord of the race since the world began	G
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This is my city Springfield	J
My home on the breast of the plain	K
The state house towers to heaven	L
By an arsenal gray as the rain	K
And suddenly all is mist	M
And I walk in a world apart	N
In the forest age when I first knelt down	O
At your feet O Peace of the Heart	N
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This is the wonder of twilight	P
Three times as high as the dome	Q
Tiger striped trees encircle the town	O
Golden geysers of foam	Q
While giant white parrots sail past in their pride	R
The roofs now are clouds and storms that they ride	R
And there with the huntsmen of mound builder days	S
Through jungle and meadow I stride	R
And the Tiger Tree leaf is falling around	T
As it fell when the world began	G
Like a monstrous tiger skin stretched on the ground	T
Or the cloak of a medicine man	G
A deep crumpled gossamer web	U
Fringed with the fangs of a snake	V
The wind swirls it down from the leperous boughs	W
It shimmers on clay hill and lake	V
With the gleam of great bubbles of blood	X
Or coiled like a rainbow shell	Y
I feast on the stem of the Leaf as I march	Z
I am burning with Heaven and Hell	Y
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The gray king died in his hour	A
Then we crowned you the prophetess wise	A2
Peace of the Heart we deeply adored	B2
For the witchcraft hid in your eyes	A2
Gift from the sky overmastering all	C2
You sent forth your magical parrots to call	C2
The plot hatching prince of the tigers	D2
To your throne by the red clay wall	C2
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Thus came that genius insane	K
Spitting and slinking	V
Sneering and vain	K
He sprawled to your grassy throne drunk on The Leaf	E2
The drug that was cunning and splendor and grief	E2
He had fled from the mammoth by day	F2
He had blasted the mammoth by night	P
War was his drunkenness	G2
War was his dreaming	V
War was his love and his play	F2
And he hissed at your heavenly glory	I
While his councillors snarled in delight	P
Asking in irony What shall we learn	H2
From this whisperer fragile and white	P
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And had you not been an enchantress	G2
They would not have loitered to mock	V
Nor spared your white parrots who walked by their paws	G2
With bantering venturesome talk	V
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You made a white fire of The Leaf	E2
You sang while the tiger chiefs hissed	M
You chanted of Peace to the wonderful world	I2
And they saw you in dazzling mist	M
And their steps were no longer insane	K
Kindness came down like the rain	K
They dreamed that like fleet young ponies they feasted	J2
On succulent grasses and grain	K
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Then came the black mammoth chief	E2
Long haired and shaggy and great	K2
Proud and sagacious he marshalled his court	L2
You had sent him your parrots of state	K2
His trunk in rebellion upcurled	K2
A curse at the tiger he hurled	K2
Huge elephants trumpeted there by his side	K2
And mastodon chiefs of the world	K2
But higher magic began	G
For the turbulent vassals of man	G
You harnessed their fever you conquered their ire	M2
Their hearts turned to flowers through holy desire	A
For their darling and star you were crowned	K2
And their raging demons were bound	K2
You rode on the back of the yellow streaked king	V
His loose neck was wreathed with a mistletoe ring	V
Primordial elephants loomed by your side	K2
And our clay painted children danced by your path	N2
Chanting the death of the kingdoms of wrath	N2
You wrought until night with us all	C2
The fierce brutes fawned at your call	C2
Then slipped to their lairs song chained	K2
And thus you sang sweetly and reigned	K2
Immortal is the inner peace free to beasts and men	O2
Beginning in the darkness the mystery will conquer	A
And now it comforts every heart that seeks for love again	O2
And now the mammoth bows the knee	I
We hew down every Tiger Tree	I
We send each tiger bound in love and glory to his den	O2
Bound in love and wisdom and glory to his den	O2
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Beware of the trumpeting swine	P2
Came the howl from the northward that night	K2
Twice rebel tigers warning was still	Q2
If we held not beside them it boded us ill	Q2
From the parrots translating the cry	-
And the apes in the trees came the whine	P2
Beware of the trumpeting swine	P2
Beware of the faith of a mammoth	R2
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Beware of the faith of a tiger	A
Came the roar from the southward that night	K2
Trumpeting mammoths warning us still	Q2
If we held not beside them it boded us ill	Q2
The frail apes wailed to us all	C2
The parrots reechoed the call	C2
Beware of the faith of a tiger	A
From the heights of the forest the watchers could see	I
The tiger cats crunching the Leaf of the Tree	I
Lashing themselves and scattering foam	Q
Killing our huntsmen hurrying home	Q
The chiefs of the mammoths our mastery spurned	K2
And eastward restlessly fumed and burned	K2
The peacocks squalled out the news of their drilling	V
And told how they trampled maneuvered and turned	K2
Ten thousand man hating tigers	G2
Whirling down from the north like a flood	K2
Ten thousand mammoths oncoming	V
From the south as avengers of blood	K2
Our child queen was mourning her magic was dead	K2
The roots of the Tiger Tree reeking with red	K2
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This is the tale of the Tiger Tree	I
A hundred times the height of a man	G
Lord of the race since the world began	G
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We marched to the mammoths	G2
We pledged them our steel	S2
And scorning you sang	V
We are men	O2
We are men	O2
We mounted their necks	G2
And they stamped a wide reel	S2
We sang	V
We are fighting the hell cats again	O2
We are mound builder men	O2
We are elephant men	O2
We left you there lonely	I
Beauty your power	A
Wisdom your watchman	L
To hold the clay tower	A
While the black mammoths boomed	K2
You are elephant men	O2
Men	O2
Men	O2
Elephant men	O2
The dawn winds prophesied battles untold	K2
While the Tiger Trees roared of the glories of old	K2
Of the masterful spirits and hard	K2
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The drunken cats came in their joy	T2
In the sunrise a glittering wave	E2
We are tigers are tigers they yowled	K2
Down	O
Down	O
Go the swine to the grave	E2
But we tramp	U2
Tramp	U2
Trampled them there	V2
Then charged with our sabres and spears	G2
The swish of the sabre	A
The swish of the sabre	A
Was a marvellous tune in our ears	G2
We yelled We are men	O2
We are men	O2
As we bled to death in the sun	L
Then staunched our horrible wounds	G2
With the cry that the battle was won	L
And at last	K2
When the black mammoth legion	L
Split the night with their song	V
Right is braver than wrong	V
Right is stronger than wrong	V
The buzzards came taunting	V
Down from the north	W2
Tiger nations are sweeping along	V
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Then we ate of the ravening Leaf	E2
As our savage fathers of old	K2
No longer our wounds made us weak	V
No longer our pulses were cold	K2
Though half of my troops were afoot	K2
For the great who had borne them were slain	K
We dreamed we were tigers and leaped	K2
And foamed with that vision insane	K
We cried We are soldiers of doom	X2
Doom	X2
Sabres of glory and doom	X2
We wreathed the king of the mammoths	G2
In the tiger leaves' terrible bloom	X2
We flattered the king of the mammoths	G2
Loud rattling sabres and spears	G2
The swish of the sabre	A
The swish of the sabre	A
Was a marvellous tune in his ears	G2
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V	I
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This was the end of the battle	E
The tigers poured by in a tide	K2
Over us all with their caterwaul call	C2
We are the tigers	G2
They cried	K2
We are the sabres	G2
They cried	K2
But we laughed while our blades swept wide	K2
While the dawn rays stabbed through the gloom	X2
We are suns on fire was our yell	Y
Suns on fire	A
But man child and mastodon fell	Y
Mammoth and elephant fell	Y
The fangs of the devil cats closed on the world	K2
Plunged it to blackness and doom	X2
The desolate red clay wall	C2
Echoed the parrots' call	C2
Immortal is the inner peace free to beasts and men	O2
Beginning in the darkness the mystery will conquer	A
And now it comforts every heart that seeks for love again	O2
And now the mammoth bows the knee	I
We hew down every Tiger Tree	I
We send each tiger bound in love and glory to his den	O2
Bound in love and wisdom and glory to his den	O2
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A peacock screamed of his beauty	I
On that broken wall by the trees	G2
Chiding his little mate	K2
Spreading his fans in the breeze	G2
And you with eyes of a bride	K2
Knelt on the wall at my side	K2
The deathless song in your mouth	Y2
A million new tigers swept south	Y2
As we laughed at the peacock and died	K2
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This is my vision in Springfield	K2
Three times as high as the dome	Q
Tiger striped trees encircle the town	O
Golden geysers of foam	Q
Though giant white parrots sail past giving voice	G2
Though I walk with Peace of the Heart and rejoice	G2