IN ancient times when beasts could talk,
When fish and fowl could reason,
When crimes were tried among the brutes,
From petty theft to treason,
It chanced that on a river's bank
A flock of geese resided.
The age exact in which they lived
As yet is undecided;
But sure it is, they had their day:
To-day we have their story, -
A tale as full of sham pretence
As 't is devoid of glory.
It came to pass one summer night,
When all the heavens were gleaming
With twinkling stars, and o'er the earth
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