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BREKEKEKEX KOAX KOAX by ROBERT FULLER MURRAY

First Line: I LOVE THE INOFFENSIVE FROG
Last Line: IF OTHER INWARD PARTS EXIST.
Subject(s): ANIMALS; ARISTOPHANES (450-388 B.C.); DRAMATISTS; FROGS; PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS;
I love the inoffensive frog,
'A little child, a limber elf,'
With health and spirits all agog,
He does the long jump in a bog
Or teaches men to swim and dive.
If he should be cut up alive,
Should I not be cut up myself?

So I intend to be straightway
An Anti-Vivisectionist;
I'll read Miss Cobbe five hours a day
And watch the little frogs at play,
With no desire to see their hearts
At work, or other inward parts,
If other inward parts exist.



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