The Ape.
There is an ape in Paris, To which was given a wife: Like many a one that marries, This ape, in brutal strife, Soon beat her out of life. Their infant cries, - perhaps not fed, - But cries, I ween, in vain; The father laughs: his wife is dead, And he has other loves again, Which he will also beat, I think, - Return'd from tavern drown'd in drink. For aught that's good, you need not look Among the imitative tribe; A monkey be it, or what makes a book - The worse, I deem - the aping scribe.
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