. Whims and oddities : in prose and verse. he lion and his kin :The keepers eyes were fixd upon a saw ;The saw was fixd upon a bullocks shin : Meanwhile with stealthy paw, Pug hastened to withdrawThe bolt that kept the king of brutes , monarch of the forest! thou shalt winPrecious enfranchisement—thy bolts are undone ;Thou art no longer a degraded creature,But loose to roam with liberty and nature ;And free of all the jungles about London-All Hampsteacls heathy desert lies before thee !Methinks I see thee bound from Crosss ark, THE MONKEY-MARTYR. 303 Full of the native instinct that

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. Whims and oddities : in prose and verse. he lion and his kin :The keepers eyes were fixd upon a saw ;The saw was fixd upon a bullocks shin : Meanwhile with stealthy paw, Pug hastened to withdrawThe bolt that kept the king of brutes , monarch of the forest! thou shalt winPrecious enfranchisement—thy bolts are undone ;Thou art no longer a degraded creature,But loose to roam with liberty and nature ;And free of all the jungles about London-All Hampsteacls heathy desert lies before thee !Methinks I see thee bound from Crosss ark, THE MONKEY-MARTYR. 303 Full of the native instinct that comes oer thee, And turn a rangerOf Hounslow Forest, and the Regents Park-Thin Rhodess cows—the mail-coach steeds endanger,And gobble parish watchman after dark:—Methinks I see thee, with the early lark,Stealing to Merlins cave—{thy cave.)—Alas,That such bright visions should not come to pass!Alas, for freedom, and for freedoms hero ! Alas, for liberty of life and limb !For Pug had only half unbolted Nero, When Nero bolted him !. BRUTE EMANCIPATION. 304

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