StoryTitle("caps", "The Crocodile") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "Whatever our faults, we can always engage", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That no fancy or fable shall sully our page,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "So take note of what follows, I beg.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This creature so grand and august in its age,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "In its youth is hatched out of an egg.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And oft in some far Coptic town", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Missionary sits him down", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "To breakfast by the Nile:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The heart beneath his priestly gown", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Is innocent of guile;", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "When suddenly the rigid frown", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Panic is observed to drown ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "His customary smile.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why does he start and leap amain, ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
DisplayImage("text", "zpage025", "
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PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And scour the sandy Libyan plain", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like one that wants to catch a train", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or wrestles with internal pain?", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Because he finds his egg contain—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Green, hungry, horrible and plain—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "An Infant Crocodile.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>