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I love the inoffensive frog,          'A little child, a limber elf,'     With health and spirits all agog,     He does the long jump in a bog     Or teaches men to swim and dive.     If he should be cut up alive,          Should I not be cut up myself?     So I intend to be straightway          An Anti-Vivisectionist;     I'll read Miss Cobbe five hours a day     And watch the little frogs at play,     With no desire to see their hearts     At work, or other inward parts,          If other inward parts exist.

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