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by Ernest Hemingway

(under the pseudonym, Rudyard Kipling)

 

There’s a little monkey maiden looking eastward toward the sea.
There’s a new monkey soprano a’sobbing in the tree,
And Harold’s looking very fit the papers all agree.

L’ENVOI

It was quite an operation.
But it may have saved the Nation.
And what’s one amputation
To the tribe?