<h2><span><SPAN name="13">THE INHUMAN WOLF</SPAN></span><br>
<br>
<span> AND</span><br>
<br>
<span> THE LAMB SANS GENE</span><br/></h2>
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A gaunt and relentless wolf, possessed<br/>
Of a quite insatiable thirst,<br/>
Once paused at a stream to drink and rest,<br/>
And found that, bound on a similar quest,<br/>
A lamb had arrived there first.<br/>
<br/>
The lamb was a lamb of a garrulous mind<br/>
And frivolity most extreme:<br/>
In the fashion common to all his kind,<br/>
He cantered in front and galloped behind.<br/>
And troubled the limpid stream.<br/>
<br/>
"My friend," said the wolf, with a winsome air,<br/>
"Your capers I can't admire."<br/>
"Go to!" quoth the lamb. (Though he said not where,<br/>
He showed what he meant by his brazen stare<br/>
And the way that he gambolled higher.)<br/>
<br/>
"My capers," he cried, "are the kind that are<br/>
Invariably served with lamb.<br/>
Remember, this is a public bar,<br/>
And I'll do as I please. If your drink I mar,<br/>
I don't give a tinker's ----."<br/>
<br/>
He paused and glanced at the rivulet,<br/>
And that pause than speech was worse,<br/>
For his roving eye a saw-mill met,<br/>
And, near it, the word which should be set<br/>
At the end of the previous verse.<br/>
<br/>
Said the wolf: "You are tough and may bring remorse,<br/>
But of such is the world well rid.<br/>
I've swallowed your capers, I've swallowed your sauce,<br/>
And it's plain to be seen that my only course<br/>
Is swallowing you." He did.<br/>
<br/>
THE MORAL: The wisest lambs they are<br/>
Who, when they're assailed by thirst,<br/>
Keep well away from a public bar;<br/>
For of all black sheep, or near, or far,<br/>
The public bar-lamb's worst!<br/>
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