Grasses and Weeds
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants
by Emily Dickinson
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The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants At Evening, it is not
At Morning, in a Truffled Hut
It stops upon a Spot
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As if it tarried always
And yet it’s whole Career
Is shorter than a Snake’s Delay And fleeter than a Tare ‘Tis Vegetation’s Juggler The Germ of Alibi Doth like a Bubble antedate
And like a Bubble, hie I feel as if the Grass was pleased
To have it intermit This surreptitious Scion
Of Summer’s circumspect.
Had Nature any supple Face
Or could she one contemn Had Nature an Apostate That Mushroom - it is Him!
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Insects
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Birds
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Animals
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Grasses and Weeds
Old Man Platypus
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by A.B. (Banjo) Paterson
Far from the trouble and toil of town,
Where the reed beds sweep and shiver,
Look at a fragment of velvet brown Old Man Platypus drifting down,
Drifting along the river.
And he plays and dives in the river bends
In a style that is most elusive;
With few relations and fewer friends,
For Old Man Platypus descends
From a family most exclusive.
He shares his burrow beneath the bank
With his wife and his son and daughter
At the roots of the reeds and the grasses rank;
And the bubbles show where our hero sank
To its entrance under water.
Safe in their burrow below the falls
They live in a world of wonder,
Where no one visits and no one calls,
They sleep like little brown billiard balls
With their beaks tucked neatly under.
And he talks in a deep unfriendly growl
As he goes on his journey lonely;
For he's no relation to fish nor fowl,
Nor to bird nor beast, nor to horned owl;
In fact, he's the one and only!
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