Explore "The Scarlet Gown: THE BANISHED BEJANT FROM THE UNPUBLISHED REMAINS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE" by Robert Fuller Murray on Textopian.
I love the inoffensive frog, / 'A little child, a limber elf,' / With health and spirits all agog, / He does the long jump in a bog / Or teaches men to swim and dive. / If he should be cut up alive, / Should I not be cut up myself?
So I intend to be straightway / An Anti-Vivisectionist; / I'll read Miss Cobbe five hours a day / And watch the little frogs at play, / With no desire to see their hearts / At work, or other inward parts, / If other inward parts exist.