Monkey And
in the green hay Where monkey and bear lay woke 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 remain in your place, for season And had the overfed dead but To high-fence, horse-sense, wisdom...
Did you that, Bear? Said monkey We'll get out of here, fair and They've left the gate wide!
So My Here is my hand, where is your Try and my plan, Ursala My heart is a Full of that's just, and earnest Now; you know we must unlearn this Allegiance to a life of 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 the open country in milk and honey
Will you keep your fancy on, for me? Can you bear a little longer to wear that My love, I swear by the air I or later, you'll bare your teeth
But for now, just dance, C'mon, you dance, my darling? Darling, there's a for us Can we go, before I turn to Oh my darling, a place for us Oh C'mon will you dance, my Oh, the hills are groaning with Like a table being set Oh my darling, we will get yet
They trooped the guards, the coops, and the fields, and the farmyards All night, till
The space they gained Much farther than the that bear threw To mark they'd stop for tea
But a little faster And don't backwards Your feast is to the East, lies a little past the pasture
When the blackbirds tea whistling, they rise and clap And applause caws the kettle black And we have none of that!
Move along, Bear; there, there; that cast in plaster Our Ursala's heart beat Than monkey's will
But They have got to pay the 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 swansdown and
Bear would on her hind legs; The organ would grind dregs of song, for the Of the children, shriek Throwing coins at her Then in terror
Sing, dance, C'mon, you dance, my darling? Oh darling, a place for us Can we go, before I turn to Oh my darling, a place for us
Oh C'mon, will you dance, my You keep your eyes fixed on the hill Where ever-after eat your fill Oh my darling, dear, If you Dance, darling, and I love you
Deep in the Shone a and miserly light Where the shouldered his lamp
Someone had him The had been wandering A fair piece from where they were camped
had told him The been sneaking away To the caverns, to bathe
And the thought the monkey For he was afraid of spelunking down in caves
Also afraid what the people would say If they saw the bear in that
Lolling and obscenely Well, it seemed irrational, really; washing face
Washing matted and flea-bit pelt In some sea-spit-shine, old kelp with brine
But monkey laughed, and he muttered; When she comes back, Ursala be bursting with pride
Till I up! Saying: you've been in muck! Saying: you smell of 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 Fell off, as easy as if from boiled tomatoes
Low'red in a curtsy Bear the mantle of her diluvian shoulders;
And, a sigh, She allowed the burden of belly to drop an apron full of boulders
If you hold up her threadbare Coat to the 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 drags the water Bagging, a life's-worth of hunger, limitless minnows;
In the magnetic Balletic and glacial of insatiable shadow;
there! there! When left Bear there! there! When Bear stepped clear of
Sooner or later you'll your teeth