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Tigers Tall

Tigers in the tall grass. Bruins in the buckwheat. Sirens, sing of sassafras! Eagles, time to eat... Linger, O my looking-glass... Red run in reply. Languid liquor, poison gas! Death, glance at me sly... Frankincense burned on the tomb? Ashes, coat the walls. Belladonna, how you bloom! Funeral, how ye palls! Pyramid, best to get rid? Gold on rim, crater? Hell and Heaven, hid or bid? Only if you're sure! Wind, over the atolls fly! Cold as coffee fields! O my Spartans, don't be shy! Win or on thy shields! Forbidden City, thy birth? Life, what are you worth? Decency, dismay, thy dearth! Estuary? Firth! Honed like blades of iron! Shining in the air! O chessmasters, sac the pawn! Tortoise, eat the hare! Heaven and Hell, apply. When? Beginning again! Coyote, doth fear the hen? One day out of ten...

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