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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=390971" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Plaint Of The Missouri 'Coon In The Berlin Zoological Gardens</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=390971" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Friend, by the way you hump yourself you're from the States, I know,<br>And born in old Mizzourah, where the 'coons in plenty grow;<br>I, too, am a native of that clime, but harsh, relentless fate<br>Has doomed me to an exile far from that noble state,<br>And I, who used to climb around and swing from tree to tree,<br>Now lead a life of ignominious ease, as you can see.<br>Have pity, O compatriot mine! and bide a season near<br>While I unfurl a dismal tale to catch your friendly ear.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=390971" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">My pedigree is noble--they used my grandsire's skin<br>To piece a coat for Patterson to warm himself within--<br>Tom Patterson of Denver; no ermine can compare<br>With the grizzled robe that democratic statesman loves to wear!<br>Of such a grandsire I have come, and in the County Cole,<br>All up an ancient cottonwood, our family had its hole--<br>We envied not the liveried pomp nor proud estate of kings<br>As we hustled around from day to day in search of bugs and things.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=390971" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And when the darkness fell around, a mocking bird was nigh,<br>Inviting pleasant, soothing dreams with his sweet lullaby;<br>And sometimes came the yellow dog to brag around all night<br>That nary 'coon could wollop him in a stand-up barrel fight;<br>We simply smiled and let him howl, for all Mizzourians know<br>That ary 'coon can beat a dog if the 'coon gets half a show!<br>But we'd nestle close and shiver when the mellow moon had ris'n<br>And the hungry nigger sought our lair in hopes to make us his'n!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=390971" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Raised as I was, it's hardly strange I pine for those old days--<br>I cannot get acclimated or used to German ways;<br>The victuals that they give me here may all be very fine<br>For vulgar, common palates, but they will not do for mine!<br>The 'coon that's been used to stanch democratic cheer<br>Will not put up with onion tarts and sausage steeped in beer!<br>No; let the rest, for meat and drink, accede to slavish terms,<br>But send _me_ back from whence I came and let me grub for worms!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=390971" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">They come (these gaping Teutons do) on Sunday afternoons<br>And wonder what I am--alas! there are no German 'coons!<br>For, if there were, I might still swing at home from tree to tree,<br>A symbol of democracy that's woolly, blythe and free.<br>And yet for what my captors are I would not change my lot,<br>For _I_ have tasted liberty--these others, _they_ have not!<br>So, even caged, the democratic 'coon more glory feels<br>Than the conscript German puppets with their swords about their heels!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=390971" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Well, give my love to Crittenden, to Clardy and O'Neill,<br>To Jasper Burke and Colonel Jones, and tell 'em how I feel;<br>My compliments to Cockrill, Munford, Switzler, Hasbrook, Vest,<br>Bill Nelson, J. West Goodwin, Jedge Broadhead and the rest;<br>Bid them be steadfast in the faith and pay no heed at all<br>To Joe McCullagh's badinage or Chauncy Filley's gall;<br>And urge them to retaliate for what I'm suffering here<br>By cinching all the alien class that wants its Sunday beer.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</a></strong></div>