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The Chimera

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You'd think a lion or a snake     Were quite enough one's nerves to shake;     But in this classic beast we find     A lion and a snake combined,     And, just as if that weren't enough,     A goat thrown in to make it tough.     Let scientists the breed pooh! pooh!     Come with me to some Social Zoo     And hear the bearded Lion bleat     Goat-like on patent-kidded feet,     Whose "Civil leer and damning praise"     The serpent's cloven tongue betrays.     Lo! lion, goat, and snake combined!     Thus Nature doth repeat her kind.

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