Monkey And
in the green hay Where monkey and bear lay woke 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 grey?
It is: stay by the you are given And in your place, for your season And had the overfed but listened To high-fence, horse-sense, wisdom...
Did you hear that, Said monkey We'll get out of here, fair and They've the gate 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 you know that we must unlearn this Allegiance to a of service And no answer to that heartless Hay-monger, nor be his (that charlatan, artless hustling!) But; Ursala, we've got to eat And earn our keep, still within The borders of the that man has girded (all and tight-fisted!) we reach the open country A-steeped in and honey
Will you keep fancy clothes on, for me? Can you a little longer to wear that 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, a place for us Can we go, before I turn to Oh my darling, a place for us Oh C'mon you dance, my darling? Oh, the hills are groaning excess Like a table ceaselessly 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 they gained Much than the stone that bear threw To mark they'd stop for tea
But walk a little And don't look Your is to the East, which lies a little past the pasture
When the blackbirds hear tea whistling, they and clap And their applause caws the black And we can't none of that!
Move along, Bear; there, there; that cast in plaster Our Ursala's heart beat monkey's ever will
But They have got to pay the Hadn't That is what the say
So, with the of a clown, or a cur Or a kite, jerking tight at its In her dun-brown of fur And her of swansdown and leather
Bear sway on her hind legs; The organ would dregs of song, for the pleasure Of the children, who'd coins at her feet Then in terror
Sing, dance, C'mon, you dance, my darling? Oh darling, there's a for us Can we go, I turn to dust? Oh my darling, there's a for us
Oh C'mon, you dance, my darling? You keep your fixed on the highest hill Where you'll eat your 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 bear had been A fair piece away from where they were
had told him The bear'd sneaking away To the caverns, to bathe
And the troubled the monkey For he was of spelunking down in those caves
Also afraid what the people would say If saw the bear in that state;
Lolling and splashing Well, it seemed irrational, washing that face
Washing that matted and pelt In some sea-spit-shine, old kelp dripping with
But just laughed, and he muttered; When she comes back, Ursala will be bursting pride
I jump up! Saying: you've rolling in muck! Saying: you smell of and grime!
But far out Far out By now By now Far out, by now, ploughed 'Cause she would not
First the of the bear Up and fell down, in the water, knobby garters
Then the outside-arms of the Fell off, as easy as if sloughed from boiled
in a genteel curtsy Bear the mantle of her diluvian shoulders;
And, a sigh, She allowed the burden of belly to like an apron full of boulders
If you could hold up her to the light where it's worn translucent in places
You'd see where Almost every night of the year Bear had been mending suspending that
Now her coat through the water Bagging, with a life's-worth of hunger, limitless
In the embrace Balletic and of Bear's insatiable shadow;
there! there! When Bear left there! there! When Bear stepped of Bear
Sooner or later you'll your teeth