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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (18768)6/12/2003 4:10:09 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 32936
 
Is this some kind of sideways swipe at our revered national symbol, lonus onebuckensis loonae the aurora borealis warbler?

What would Hiawatha say?

He might sing you with a paddle.

Loonsong Lament, a poem, all rights reserved.

Gotta go,
Gotta go,
To the land of the loon
To the far-off land of the loon song

I swoon, swoon, swoon, swoon,
-- for the call of the loon
The lonesome thrill of woo-oo
woo-oo, woo-oo
to wit:
to woo.

Or is that just an owl
that I do hear howl?
could it be yonder wolf,
with plaintive, low yowl?

I will never know
what winds may blow
that carry the song
so sweet and so strong
of the lonesome pond loon
that each nite does croon
far off mournful tune

-- twould be a boon
by the lite of the moon*
on a beach and in june
to listen to loon --
not to wake on a rock
to the crow of the cock
Oh what a shock!

The cock I won't nock,
nor dog's bark,
Won't I hark,
but it's loon that I mark
with its revery dark
and calling so stark
That's the song and the tune
of the lonesome poltroon.

EC<:-}