قراءة كتاب The Autobiography of a Monkey

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The Autobiography of a Monkey

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دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

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And then, as my years were advancing,

So great was their honor and trust,

That they twined me a chaplet of laurel

And sculptured in marble my bust.

Yet often I dreamed of the jungle—

Its song and the rustle of wing—

And sometimes still talked in my slumber

With Tusky, our elephant king.

When, lo, my political party,

That now was in power and supreme,

Conferred a most noble appointment

That realized all of my dream.

For they made me their African envoy,

And soon I went sailing again,

To meet my old playmates and tell them

The ways and the customs of men.

To calm the dusk native, and gather

My people in sun-haunted nooks

To tell them my story, and teach them

The wisdom that cometh of books;

The words and the ways of their fathers,

And deliver my race from its ban,

For man did not spring from the monkey,

But monkey descended from man!