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Thank God my brain is not inclined to cut	A
Such capers every day I 'm just about	B
Mellow but then There goes the tent flap shut	A
Rain 's in the wind I thought so every snout	B
Was twitching when the keeper turned me out	B
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That screaming parrot makes my blood run cold	C
Gabriel's trump the big bull elephant	D
Squeals Rain to the parched herd The monkeys scold	C
And jabber that it 's rain water they want	E
It makes me sick to see a monkey pant	F
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I 'll foot it home to try and make believe	G
I 'm sober After this I stick to beer	H
And drop the circus when the sane folks leave	G
A man 's a fool to look at things too near	H
They look back and begin to cut up queer	H
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Beasts do at any rate especially	I
Wild devils caged They have the coolest way	J
Of being something else than what you see	I
You pass a sleek young zebra nosing hay	J
A nylghau looking bored and distingu	K
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And think you 've seen a donkey and a bird	L
Not on your life Just glance back if you dare	M
The zebra chews the nylghau has n't stirred	L
But something 's happened Heaven knows what or where	M
To freeze your scalp and pompadour your hair	M
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I 'm not precisely an olian lute	N
Hung in the wandering winds of sentiment	D
But drown me if the ugliest meanest brute	N
Grunting and fretting in that sultry tent	O
Did n't just floor me with embarrassment	D
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'T was like a thunder clap from out the clear	H
One minute they were circus beasts some grand	P
Some ugly some amusing and some queer	H
Rival attractions to the hobo band	P
The flying jenny and the peanut stand	P
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Next minute they were old hearth mates of mine	Q
Lost people eyeing me with such a stare	M
Patient satiric devilish divine	Q
A gaze of hopeless envy squalid care	M
Hatred and thwarted love and dim despair	M
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Within my blood my ancient kindred spoke	K
Grotesque and monstrous voices heard afar	R
Down ocean caves when behemoth awoke	K
Or through fern forests roared the plesiosaur	R
Locked with the giant bat in ghastly war	R
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And suddenly as in a flash of light	S
I saw great Nature working out her plan	T
Through all her shapes from mastodon to mite	S
Forever groping testing passing on	U
To find at last the shape and soul of Man	T
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Till in the fullness of accomplished time	V
Comes brother Forepaugh upon business bent	O
Tracks her through frozen and through torrid clime	V
And shows us neatly labeled in a tent	O
The stages of her huge experiment	D
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Blabbing aloud her shy and reticent hours	W
Dragging to light her blinking slothful moods	X
Publishing fretful seasons when her powers	W
Worked wild and sullen in her solitudes	W
Or when her mordant laughter shook the woods	W
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Here round about me were her vagrant births	W
Sick dreams she had fierce projects she essayed	D
Her qualms her fiery prides her crazy mirths	W
The troublings of her spirit as she strayed	D
Cringed gloated mocked was lordly was afraid	D
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On that long road she went to seek mankind	D
Here were the darkling coverts that she beat	D
To find the Hider she was sent to find	D
Here the distracted footprints of her feet	D
Whereby her soul's Desire she came to greet	D
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But why should they her botch work turn about	D
And stare disdain at me her finished job	Y
Why was the place one vast suspended shout	D
Of laughter Why did all the daylight throb	Y
With soundless guffaw and dumb stricken sob	Y
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Helpless I stood among those awful cages	W
The beasts were walking loose and I was bagged	D
I I last product of the toiling ages	W
Goal of heroic feet that never lagged	D
A little man in trousers slightly jagged	D
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Deliver me from such another jury	R
The Judgment day will be a picnic to 't	D
Their satire was more dreadful than their fury	R
And worst of all was just a kind of brute	D
Disgust and giving up and sinking mute	D
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Survival of the fittest adaptation	Z
And all their other evolution terms	W
Seem to omit one small consideration	Z
To wit that tumblebugs and angleworms	W
Have souls there 's soul in everything that squirms	W
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And souls are restless plagued impatient things	W
All dream and unaccountable desire	R
Crawling but pestered with the thought of wings	W
Spreading through every inch of earth's old mire	R
Mystical hanker after something higher	R
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Wishes are horses as I understand	D
I guess a wistful polyp that has strokes	W
Of feeling faint to gallivant on land	D
Will come to be a scandal to his folks	W
Legs he will sprout in spite of threats and jokes	W
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And at the core of every life that crawls	W
Or runs or flies or swims or vegetates	W
Churning the mammoth's heart blood in the galls	W
Of shark and tiger planting gorgeous hates	W
Lighting the love of eagles for their mates	W
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Yes in the dim brain of the jellied fish	A2
That is and is not living moved and stirred	D
From the beginning a mysterious wish	A2
A vision a command a fatal Word	D
The name of Man was uttered and they heard	D
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Upward along the ons of old war	R
They sought him wing and shank bone claw and bill	B2
Were fashioned and rejected wide and far	R
They roamed the twilight jungles of their will	B2
But still they sought him and desired him still	B2
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Man they desired but mind you Perfect Man	T
The radiant and the loving yet to be	R
I hardly wonder when they came to scan	T
The upshot of their strenuosity	D
They gazed with mixed emotions upon me	R
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Well my advice to you is Face the creatures	W
Or spot them sideways with your weather eye	C2
Just to keep tab on their expansive features	W
It is n't pleasant when you 're stepping high	C2
To catch a giraffe smiling on the sly	C2
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If nature made you graceful don't get gay	K
Back to before the hippopotamus	W
If meek and godly find some place to play	K
Besides right where three mad hyenas fuss	W
You may hear language that we won't discuss	W
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If you 're a sweet thing in a flower bed hat	D
Or her best fellow with your tie tucked in	D2
Don't squander love's bright springtime girding at	D
An old chimpanzee with an Irish chin	D2
There may be hidden meaning in his grin	D2

William Vaughn Moody

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