Monkey And
Down in the hay Where monkey and usually lay They woke from a cry
He said; come 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: stay by the gate you are 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 get out of here, fair and square They've left the open wide!
So My Here is my hand, where is paw? Try and understand my plan, My heart is a Full of that's just, and earnest Now; you know that we unlearn this to a life of service And no longer answer to that Hay-monger, nor be his (that charlatan, with 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 open in milk and honey
Will you keep fancy clothes on, for me? Can you bear a longer to wear that leash? My love, I by the air I breathe: Sooner or later, you'll bare your
But for now, just dance, C'mon, will you dance, my 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 groaning excess Like a table being set Oh my darling, we get there yet
They past the guards, the coops, and the fields, and the farmyards All night, finally:
The space they gained Much farther the stone that bear threw To where they'd stop for tea
But walk a faster And don't backwards Your feast is to the East, which lies a little the pasture
the blackbirds hear tea whistling, they rise and clap And their applause the kettle black And we can't have of that!
Move along, Bear; there, there; that cast in plaster Our Ursala's beat faster monkey's ever will
But They have got to pay the Hadn't That is the monkey'd 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 would on her hind legs; The organ grind dregs of song, for the pleasure Of the children, shriek Throwing coins at her recoiling in terror
Sing, dance, C'mon, will you dance, my Oh 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? You keep your eyes fixed on the hill 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 piece from where they were camped
Someone had him The bear'd sneaking away To the seaside caverns, to
And the troubled the monkey For he was of spelunking down in those caves
Also afraid what the village people say If they saw the in that state;
Lolling and splashing Well, it seemed irrational, really; that face
Washing matted and flea-bit pelt In some sea-spit-shine, old kelp dripping with
But monkey laughed, and he muttered; she comes back, Ursala will be bursting with pride
Till I up! Saying: been rolling in muck! you smell of garbage and grime!
But far out Far out By now By now Far out, by now, ploughed 'Cause she would not
the outside-legs of the bear Up and fell down, in the water, like garters
the outside-arms of the bear Fell off, as easy as if sloughed boiled tomatoes
Low'red in a curtsy Bear shed the mantle of her diluvian
And, a sigh, She allowed the burden of belly to drop an apron full of boulders
If you could hold up her Coat to the light where it's translucent in places
You'd see spots Almost every of the year Bear had been mending suspending that baseness
Now her coat through the water Bagging, with a of hunger, limitless minnows;
In the magnetic Balletic and glacial of Bear's shadow;
there! there! When Bear Bear there! there! When Bear stepped clear of
Sooner or later you'll bury your