<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353280" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Newcomer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There's something new in the river,'<br>The fish said as it swam.<br>'It's got no scales, no fins and no gills,<br>And ignores the impassable dam.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There's something new in the trees.'<br>I heard a bloated thrush sing.<br>'It's got no beak, no claws, and no feathers, <br>And not even the ghost of a wing.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There's something new in the warren,'<br>Said the rabbit to the doe.<br>'It's got no fur, no eyes and no paws,<br>Yet digs further than we dare go.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There's something new in the whiteness,'<br>Said the snow-bright polar bear.<br>'I saw its shadow on a glacier,<br>But it left no pawmarks there.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the animal kingdom<br>The news was spreading fast.<br>No beak, no claws, no feather,<br>No scales, no fur, no gills,<br>It lives in the trees and the water,<br>In the soil and the snow and the hills,<br>And it kills and it kills and it kills.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Brian+Patten">Brian Patten</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353280" data-title="The Newcomer de Brian Patten" data-description="'There's something new in the river,' The fish said as it swam. 'It's got no scales, no fins and no gills, And ignores the impassable dam.' 'There's something new in the trees.' I heard a bloated thrush sing. 'It's got no beak, no claws, and no f..."></div> </div> </div>

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