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LINES INSPIRED BY THE MUSKRAT'S HOUSE, by                    
First Line: When adam from the garden fled
Last Line: They wrought it first -- the perfect dome.
Subject(s): Muskrats


When Adam from the garden fled,
Up to the mountains high he sped;
There with Eve he made his bed.
But as the winds blew cold, he said,

"My gentle Eve, what shall we do?
These airs, they chill me through and through.
I am so cold I can't say Boo,
The housing problem's up to you."

Now Eve she had a seeing eye;
The muskrat's dome was rearing nigh,
So unto Adam she did cry,
"What they have done -- let's you and I."

The pliant willow soon they bent,
Then crisscross the small branches went.
At set of sun, their strength well spent,
Their house to them looked Heaven-sent.

Whene'er you see St. Peter's dome
Beside the Tiber's stream at Rome,
Think of the lowly muskrat's home;
They wrought it first -- the perfect Dome.





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