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You'd think a lion or a snake / Were quite enough one's nerves to shake; / But in this classic beast we find / A lion and a snake combined, / And, just as if that weren't enough, / A goat thrown in to make it tough!
Let scientists the breed pooh! pooh! / Come with me to some Social Zoo / And hear the bearded Lion bleat / Goat-like on patent-kidded feet, / Whose "Civil leer and damning praise" / The serpent's cloven tongue betrays!