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One rainy morning,

Just for a lark,

I jumped and stamped

On my new Noah's Ark:

I crushed an elephant,

Smashed a gnu,

And snapped a camel

Clean in two;

I finished the wolf

Without half tryin',

And wild hyena,

And roaring lion;

I knocked down Ham,

And Japhet, too,

And cracked the leg

Of the kangaroo;

I finished, beside,

Two pigs and a donkey,

A polar bear,

Opossum, and monkey;

Also the lions,

Tigers, and cats,

And dromedaries,

And tiny rats—

There wasn't a thing

That didn't feel,

Sooner or later,

The weight o' my heel;

I felt as grand

As grand could be—

But oh the whipping

My mammy gave me!