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Yet Gentle will the Griffin Be

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(Moon Poems for the Children/Fairy-tales for the Children)              (What Grandpa told the Children)          The moon?    It is a griffin's egg,          Hatching to-morrow night.          And how the little boys will watch          With shouting and delight          To see him break the shell and stretch          And creep across the sky.          The boys will laugh.    The little girls,          I fear, may hide and cry.          Yet gentle will the griffin be,          Most decorous and fat,          And walk up to the milky way          And lap it like a cat.

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