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PoemLine("L1", "", "(His father and his mother)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Were utterly aghast to note", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The facts he would at random quote", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On creatures curious, rare and wild;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "And wondering, asked each other:", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "\"An idle little child like this,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "How is it that he knows", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What years of close analysis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Are powerless to disclose?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our brains are trained, our books are big,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "And yet we always fail", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "To answer why the Guinea-pig", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Is born without a tail.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or why the Wanderoo* should rant", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "In wild, unmeaning rhymes, ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
DisplayImage("text", "zpage008", "* Sometimes called the "Lion-tailed or tufted Baboon of Ceylon."