Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT THE ZOO, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY


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First Line: First I saw the white bear
Last Line: Smelt!
Subject(s): Zoos


First I saw the white bear,
Then I saw the black;
Then I saw the camel
With a hump upon his back;
Then I saw the grey wolf,
With mutton in his maw;
Then I saw a wombat
Waddle in the straw;
Then I saw the elephant
A-waving of his trunk;
Then I saw the monkeys --
Mercy, how unpleasantly they --
Smelt!





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