The Pachyderm

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    The Pachyderm

                  The Pachyderm 

    The mighty Elephant much hunted by man,
    His ivory tusks take a lifetime to grow.
    To kill for these tusks there is now a ban,
    But new ivory still goes on show.
    It is used for piano keys, and chess men,
    Such trivial luxuries you must agree.
    Slaughtered without pity, not knowing when,
    Now made a fugative, no more to roam free.
    Mankind has much to answer for,
    As the Pachyderm becomes extinct.
    As he dies in pain he lets out a roar,
    If you could hear it, it might make you think.

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    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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