Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT THE AQUARIUM, by BURGES JOHNSON


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First Line: Fishes swimming in and out
Last Line: I can have no part in.
Subject(s): Aquariums; Children; Childhood


Fishes swimming in and out
Till my eyes grow dizzy,
What's the task that you're about,
Keeping you so busy?

Are you meant, as people say,
Just to throw a hook at,—
Or be brought from far away,
For us all to look at?

Dogs and horses know my words,
Cats are warm and homey;
Cows and mice and even birds
Sometimes get to know me.

Yet you stare with not a wink,
Seeming not to see me.
Are there thoughts we both can think,—
Something strange and dreamy?

I may puzzle you as much!
And I wonder whether,
When I see your noses touch,
You all talk together.

There's another world, it seems,
That you drift and dart in,
Full of ways and deeds and dreams
I can have no part in.





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