I don't mind eels [ ... ]
A Musical Menagerie
Song Cycle by Philip Hagemann
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- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "The eel", appears in Good Intentions, first published 1942, copyright ©
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The firefly's flame [ ... ]
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- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "The firefly", appears in Good Intentions, first published 1942, copyright ©
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Some primal termite knocked on wood [ ... ]
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- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "The termite", appears in Good Intentions, first published 1942, copyright ©
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- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "The ostrich", appears in You Can't Get There From Here, first published 1957, copyright ©
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God, in his wisdom [ ... ]
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- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "The fly", appears in Good Intentions, first published 1942, copyright ©
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- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "Glossina mortisans or the Tsetse", appears in Good Intentions, first published 1942, copyright ©
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Behold the duck [ ... ]
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- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "The duck", appears in The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse, first published 1936, copyright ©
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The trouble with a kitten is that [ ... ]
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- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "The kitten", appears in The Face is Familiar, first published 1940, copyright ©
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Tell me, O Octopus, I begs [ ... ]
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- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "The octopus", appears in Good Intentions, first published 1942, copyright ©
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- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "The mermaid", appears in Good Intentions, first published 1942, copyright ©
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Oh, weep for Mr. and Mrs. Bryan [ ... ]
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- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "The lion", appears in Versus, first published 1949, copyright ©
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