Monkey And
in the green hay Where monkey and usually lay They from a stable-boy's cry
He said; come quick! The got loose, got grass-sick! They'll founder! Fain, die
What is now by the sorrel and the roan? By the chestnut, and the bay, and the gelding
It is: stay by the gate you are And remain in place, for your season And had the overfed but listened To high-fence, horse-sense, wisdom...
Did you hear that, Bear? monkey get out of here, fair and square They've left the open wide!
So My Here is my hand, is your paw? Try and my plan, Ursala My is a furnace Full of love just, and earnest Now; you know that we unlearn this Allegiance to a of service And no longer answer to heartless Hay-monger, nor be his (that charlatan, with hustling!) Ursala, we've got to eat something And earn our keep, still within The borders of the that man has girded (all and tight-fisted!) Until we the open country A-steeped in milk and
Will you keep your clothes on, for me? Can you bear a little longer to wear leash? My love, I swear by the air I Sooner or later, you'll bare your
But for now, dance, darling C'mon, you dance, my darling? Darling, there's a for us Can we go, I turn to dust? Oh my darling, there's a for us Oh C'mon will you dance, my Oh, the hills are groaning with Like a ceaselessly being set Oh my darling, we get there yet
They past the guards, the coops, and the fields, and the farmyards All night, till
The space they grew Much farther than the that bear threw To mark they'd stop for tea
But walk a little And look backwards Your feast is to the East, which a little past the pasture
When the blackbirds hear tea whistling, they rise and And applause caws the kettle black And we can't have of that!
Move along, there, there; that's that Though in plaster Our Ursala's heart faster monkey's ever will
But They got to pay the bills Hadn't is what the monkey'd say
So, with the of a clown, or a cur Or a kite, jerking tight at its In her gown of fur And her jerkin' of and leather
would sway on her hind legs; The organ would grind of song, for the pleasure Of the children, shriek Throwing coins at her recoiling in terror
Sing, dance, C'mon, you dance, my darling? Oh darling, there's a for us Can we go, before I to dust? Oh my darling, a place for us
Oh C'mon, you dance, my darling? You keep your eyes fixed on the highest Where you'll ever-after eat fill Oh my darling, dear, If you Dance, darling, and I love you
Deep in the Shone a weak and light the monkey shouldered his lamp
Someone had him The had been wandering A fair away from where they were camped
had told him The bear'd been sneaking To the seaside caverns, to
And the troubled the monkey For he was afraid of spelunking down in caves
Also afraid what the village would say If they saw the bear in state;
Lolling and splashing Well, it seemed irrational, really; washing face
Washing matted and flea-bit pelt In some sea-spit-shine, old kelp with brine
But just laughed, and he muttered; she comes back, Ursala will be bursting with pride
Till I up! Saying: you've rolling in muck! Saying: you of garbage and grime!
But far out Far out By now By now Far out, by now, ploughed 'Cause she would not
First the outside-legs of the Up and fell down, in the water, like garters
the outside-arms of the bear Fell off, as as if sloughed from boiled tomatoes
in a genteel curtsy Bear the mantle of her diluvian shoulders;
And, a sigh, She allowed the burden of belly to drop like an apron full of
If you could up her threadbare Coat to the light where it's translucent in places
see spots where Almost every night of the year Bear had been mending suspending baseness
Now her coat through the water Bagging, a life's-worth of hunger, limitless minnows;
In the magnetic Balletic and glacial of insatiable shadow;
there! there! When Bear Bear there! there! When Bear stepped of Bear
Sooner or later you'll bury your