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Show THE AMUSEMENT ZOO Llstenl the sound of music Is within! Muslc7 Ah, no! 'TIs a machine made din A loud hnd rhythmic noise to put the face Of Joyous merriment upon the place What means this tap of footsteps to and fro An art exhibit or a flower show? Would It were these, Instead of dumb beasts pent In cages, robbed of their environment Those dogs with yearning eye3 would love to run Out In tho laughing freedom of tho sun? Would they could only tell with quivering quiv-ering lip What they havo suffered from the trainer's whip! This titer was he meant for man mado den A nnrrow cage of twenty feet by ten? Deep In tho Jungle thicket ho belongs, Not In the holidays of cnatterlng throngs, A "special feature" past tno further door! A "Hon training!" Hark, tho awful roar! O friend and stranger, shame, thrlco shamo I say, To pleasuro gain In such perverted way Torturo nnd pain coined Into dollars bright-Injustice bright-Injustice mocking at a Uod given right! Turn from tho place to Nature's air so free, And ceaso to countenance such cruelty, cru-elty, Lo, it will not bo long, till won by you, Tho law's strong hand shall swoop away tho Zoo. AUco Jean Cleator. |