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قراءة كتاب The Autobiography of a Monkey
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The Autobiography of a Monkey
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MONKEY
FOUND AND PICTURED
BY HY. MAYER
VERSES BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
NEW YORK R. H. RUSSELL
MDCCCXCVII
Copyright 1897
BY
ROBERT HOWARD RUSSELL
Part First.
THE DEPARTURE FROM THE FOREST.
Where the light laughs in through the tree-tops
And sports with the tangled glade,
In the depths of an Afric forest
My earliest scenes were laid.
In a bower that was merry with smilax
From the grimace of no-where, I woke
I was born on the first day of April
And they called me a jungle joke.
And the voices of birds were about me—
And the beat and the flutter of wing;
While morning returned at the trumpet
Of Tusky, our elephant king.
My nurse was a crooning old beldame
Who gazed in the palms of my hands
And vowed I was destined to travel
In many and marvellous lands.
But little I heeded her croaking,
For I gamboled the whole day long,
And swung by my tail from the tree-top,
Or joined in the jungle song.