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First Line: The donkey and the elephant were in a desert land
Last Line: As he lumbered o'er the desert with a plod, plod, plod.
Subject(s): Politics & Government; Temperance; Prohibition


The Donkey and the Elephant were in a desert land;
To north and south, to east and west, was naught but barren sand.
The Elephant grew thirsty, and the Donkey was the same,
And the ground was dry beneath them and the sky was all aflame,
And they travelled and they travelled till they couldn't travel more;
Then they sank to earth a-panting, and they thoughts their days were o'er.
But the Prohibition Camel lumbered nonchalantly by,
And he calmly cast upon them a commiserating eye.
"If you'd only," said the Camel, "grow a stomach like to mine,
With an extra water-tank or two, you'd find it very fine.
I advise you," said the Camel, "to begin to evolute,"
And he left the panting creatures with a swagger quite astute.
"Alas!" exclaimed the Elephant, "Alas!" the Donkey groaned.
"That sage advice comes all too late," the arid mammals moaned.
"For how, without a water-tank, in lands without a spring,
Are we to grow a water-tank, or sprout out anything?"
And the Prohibition Camel gave a mild, sarcastic nod,
As he lumbered o'er the desert with a plod, plod, plod.





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