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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350508" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Kangaroo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kanagaroo, Kangaroo! <br>Thou Spirit of Australia, <br>That redeems from utter failure, <br>From perfect desolation, <br>And warrants the creation <br>Of this fifth part of the Earth, <br>Which would seem an after-birth, <br>Not conceiv'd in the Beginning <br>(For GOD bless'd His work at first, <br>And saw that it was good), <br>But emerg'd at the first sinning, <br>When the ground was therefore curst; -- <br>And hence this barren wood! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Kangaroo, Kangaroo! <br>Tho' at first sight we should say, <br>In thy nature that there may <br>Contradiction be involv'd, <br>Yet, like discord well resolv'd, <br>It is quickly harmonized. <br>Sphynx or mermaid realiz'd, <br>Or centaur unfabulous, <br>Would scarce be more prodigious, <br>Or Pegasus poetical, <br>Or hippogriff -- chimeras all! <br>But, what Nature would compile, <br>Nature knows to reconcile; <br>And Wisdom, ever at her side, <br>Of all her children's justified. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>She had made the squirrel fragile; <br>She had made the bounding hart; <br>But a third so strong and agile <br>Was beyond ev'n Nature's art; <br>So she join'd the former two <br>In thee, Kangaroo! <br>To describe thee, it is hard: <br>Converse of the camélopard, <br>Which beginneth camel-wise, <br>But endeth of the panther size, <br>Thy fore half, it would appear, <br>Had belong'd to some &quot;small deer,&quot; <br>Such as liveth in a tree; <br>By thy hinder, thou should'st be <br>A large animal of chace, <br>Bounding o'er the forest's space; -- <br>Join'd by some divine mistake, <br>None but Nature's hand can make -- <br>Nature, in her wisdom's play, <br>On Creation's holiday. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>For howsoe'er anomalous, <br>Thou yet art not incongruous, <br>Repugnant or preposterous. <br>Better-proportion'd animal, <br>More graceful or ethereal, <br>Was never follow'd by the hound, <br>With fifty steps to thy one bound. <br>Thou can'st not be amended: no; <br>Be as thou art; thou best art so. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When sooty swans are once more rare, <br>And duck-moles the Museum's care, <br>Be still the glory of this land, <br>Happiest Work of finest Hand!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Barron+Field">Barron Field</a><div class=q>
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Thou Spirit of Australia, 
That redeems from utter failure, 
From perfect desolation, 
And warrants the creation 
Of this fifth part of the Earth, 
Which would seem an after-birth, 
Not conceiv'd in the Beginning 
(For GOD bl..."></div>
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