Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 58
crop the leaves upon the trees,Your legs are quite too long, and makeIt difficult for you to slakeYour thirst—in other words, you ve foundYour neck too short to reach the ground.Indeed, I ve often wept to thinkHow hard it is for you to drink. THE GEOMETRICAL GIRAFFE. 45 : To right a wrong we must,… … Then Rsyour head stretched down, and shows How far the ground lies from your nose— Though if the ground lay not at B, But R, you d reach it easily. Suppose it then at R to lie, And draw for ground line D R I. Your head then touches ground at R — But now your feet go down too far! My compasses then…
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