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Say nature on whose wond'rous reign	A
Delighted fancy dwells	B
Of all thy numerous brutal train	A
What animal excells	B
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What quadruped most nobly vies	B
In virtue with mankind	C
Like man deliberately wise	B
And resolutely kind	C
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Beneath a form vast and uncouth	D
Such excellence is found	E
Sagacious Elephant thy truth	D
Thy kindness is renown'd	E
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More mild than sanguinary man	F
Whose servant thou hast prov'd	G
Oft in his frantic battle's van	F
Thy bulk has stood unmoved	G
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There oft thy spirit griev'd to see	B
His murd'rous rage encrease	B
'Till mad himself he madden'd thee	B
Thou nobler friend to peace	B
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Acts of thy courage might occur	H
To grace heroic song	I
But I thy gentle deeds prefer	H
Thou strongest of the strong	I
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Where India serves the British throne	J
In scenes no longer wild	K
A menial Elephant was known	J
Most singularly mild	K
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It was his custom fresh and gay	L
By his attendant led	M
Walking to water every day	L
To pass a gard'ner's shed	M
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This gard'ner of good natured fame	N
Admir'd the noble beast	O
And gave him whensoe'er he came	N
A vegetable feast	O
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Some dainty from his stall bestow'd	P
So made the beast his friend	Q
'Twas joy to see at this abode	P
His blythe proboscis bend	Q
	-
Not coarsely eager for his food	R
He seem'd his love to court	S
And oft delighted as he stood	T
To yield his children sport	S
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As if to thank them for each gift	U
With tender touching care	V
The boys he to his back would lift	U
And still caress them there	V
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In short his placid gambols seem'd	W
Affection so profound	E
His friendship for this man was deem'd	W
A wonder all around	E
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But O can humour's giddy range	X
Mislead the brutal mind	C
Can elephants their friendship change	X
As fickle as mankind	C
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See now the hero of my song	I
That theme of every tongue	Y
Alone and fierce he stalks along	I
As if with frenzy stung	Y
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See to the gard'ner's well known shed	M
Impetuous he flies	B
Seizes his friend in silent dread	M
And lifts him to the skies	B
	-
High as his trunk the man can bear	V
Th' astonish'd man he bore	Z
Who vainly struggled in the air	V
And trembled more and more	Z
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So wild so swift the monster past	A2
All deem'd him mad and fled	M
Thro' a high window gently cast	A2
With terror almost dead	M
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The astounded gard'ner view'd with awe	B2
The savage speed away	L
But soon with gratitude he saw	B
The source of his dismay	L
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Unthought of source for now inflam'd	C2
A ravenous tyger sprung	Y
And at the window vainly aim'd	C2
To which he trembling clung	Y
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And now with joy his heart strings swell	D2
And blest he deems his lot	E2
For the foil'd tyger as he fell	D2
A latent marksman shot	E2
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The Elephant returns O Heaven	F2
How tender was his air	V
Seeing the friend whose life was given	F2
To his preserving care	V
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For conscious of the danger he	B
Most providently kind	C
From unseen ill to set him free	B
Such rescue had designed	C
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Ye whom a friend's dark perils pain	A
When terrors most unnerve him	G2
Learn from this Elephant to strain	A
Your sinews to preserve him	G2

William Hayley

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