Monkey And
Down in the hay monkey and bear usually lay They from a stable-boy's cry
He said; someone quick! The got loose, got grass-sick! They'll founder! Fain, die
is now known by the sorrel and the roan? By the chestnut, and the bay, and the grey?
It is: by the gate you are given And in your place, for your season And had the dead but listened To high-fence, horse-sense, wisdom...
Did you hear that, Bear? monkey We'll get out of here, fair and They've left the open wide!
So My Here is my hand, where is paw? Try and my plan, Ursala My is a furnace Full of love just, and earnest you know that we must unlearn this Allegiance to a life of And no longer answer to that Hay-monger, nor be his (that charlatan, artless hustling!) But; Ursala, got to eat something And earn our keep, still within The borders of the that man has girded (all and tight-fisted!) Until we reach the country in milk and honey
Will you keep your fancy on, for me? Can you bear a little longer to wear leash? My love, I by the air I breathe: Sooner or later, you'll bare teeth
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, a place for us Oh C'mon will you dance, my Oh, the hills are with excess a table ceaselessly being set Oh my darling, we get there yet
They past the guards, Past the coops, and the fields, and the All night, finally:
The space gained grew Much farther than the stone bear threw To mark where stop for tea
But a little faster And look backwards Your feast is to the East, lies a little past the pasture
When the blackbirds tea whistling, they rise and clap And their applause caws the kettle And we have none of that!
Move along, Bear; there, there; that's Though in plaster Our Ursala's heart beat Than ever will
But They got to pay the bills Hadn't That is the monkey'd say
So, the courage of a clown, or a cur Or a kite, jerking at its tether In her gown of fur And her of swansdown and leather
Bear sway on her hind legs; The would grind dregs of song, for the pleasure Of the children, who'd Throwing coins at her Then recoiling in
Sing, dance, C'mon, will you dance, my Oh darling, a place for us Can we go, before I turn to Oh my darling, there's a for us
Oh C'mon, you dance, my darling? You keep your eyes on the highest hill you'll ever-after eat your fill Oh my darling, dear, If you Dance, darling, and I love you
Deep in the Shone a weak and miserly Where the shouldered his lamp
Someone had him The had been wandering A fair piece away from they were camped
had told him The bear'd been away To the seaside caverns, to
And the troubled the monkey For he was afraid of spelunking down in those
Also afraid what the village people say If saw the bear in that state;
Lolling and splashing Well, it seemed irrational, really; that face
that matted and flea-bit pelt In sea-spit-shine, old kelp dripping with brine
But monkey just laughed, and he When she comes back, Ursala will be with pride
I jump up! Saying: you've rolling in muck! you smell of garbage and grime!
But far out Far out By now By now Far out, by now, Bear 'Cause she would not
the outside-legs of the bear Up and down, in the water, like knobby garters
Then the outside-arms of the off, as easy as if sloughed from boiled tomatoes
Low'red in a curtsy Bear shed the of her diluvian shoulders;
And, a sigh, She allowed the of belly to drop like an apron full of boulders
If you could up her threadbare Coat to the light where worn translucent in places
see spots where Almost every of the year Bear had been mending suspending that baseness
Now her coat through the water Bagging, with a life's-worth of hunger, limitless
In the embrace Balletic and glacial of Bear's shadow;
there! there! When Bear Bear there! there! When Bear clear of Bear
or later you'll bury your teeth