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LION FOUNTAIN by AL-TUTILI

First Line: A LION? NO: IF I
Last Line: THE MILKY WAY.

A lion? No: if I
More closely pry
Methinks that I must own
'Tis but a stone.

Old Leo yonder sits,
So I should say,
And from his mouth he spits
The Milky Way.



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