The mastodon with dreadful tusks
Is in the thicket nigh:
I dare not go with thee.
"But worse than these would be my pa,
If I should run away;
Mamma has always told me
Maidens at home must stay.
The woolly-haired rhinoceri
Would go unshorn each day
If I eloped with thee."
Disheartened by refusal
From this parent-bullied lass,
He stole a token from her lips
And plunged in the morass.
But as he neared the farther shore,
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