. The select works of Bret Hartte in prose and poetry. So charming and rurally true,—A singular bird, with a manner absurd, Which they call the Australian Emeu S Have you Ever seen this Australian Emeu % It trots all around with its head on the ground, Or erects it quite out of your view ;And the ladies all cry, when its figure they spy, O, what a sweet pretty Emeu ! Oh! do Just look at that lovely Emeu ! One day to this spot, when the weather was hot, Came Matilda Hortense Fortescue ;And beside her there came a youth of high name,— Augustus Florell Montague: The two Both loved that wild, fore
. The select works of Bret Hartte in prose and poetry. So charming and rurally true,—A singular bird, with a manner absurd, Which they call the Australian Emeu S Have you Ever seen this Australian Emeu % It trots all around with its head on the ground, Or erects it quite out of your view ;And the ladies all cry, when its figure they spy, O, what a sweet pretty Emeu ! Oh! do Just look at that lovely Emeu ! One day to this spot, when the weather was hot, Came Matilda Hortense Fortescue ;And beside her there came a youth of high name,— Augustus Florell Montague: The two Both loved that wild, foreign Emeu. With two loaves of bread then they fed it, instead Of the flesh of the white cockatoo,Which once was its food in that wild neighbourhood Where ranges the sweet Kangaroo ; That too Is game for the famous Emeu ! Old saws and gimlets but its appetite whetsLike the world famous bark of Peru ; Theres nothing so hard that the bird will discard,And nothing its taste will eschew, That youCan give that long-legged Emeu ! THE BALLAD OF THE The twoRoth loved that wild foreign Emeu.
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