James Henry Leigh Hunt (Джеймс Генри Ли Хант)

A Fish Answers

Amazing monster! that, for aught I know,
With the first sight of thee didst make our race
For ever stare! O flat and shocking face,
Grimly divided from the breast below!
Thou that on dry land horribly dost go
With a split body and most ridiculous pace,
Prong after prong, disgracer of all grace,
Long-useless-finned, haired, upright, unwet, slow!

O breather of unbreathable, sword-sharp air,
How canst exist? How bear thyself, thou dry
And dreary sloth? WHat particle canst share
Of the only blessed life, the watery?
I sometimes see of ye an actual pair
Go by! linked fin by fin! most odiously. 

1. A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret's
2. Ariadne Waking
3. Sudden Fine Weather
4. Bellman's Verses for 1814
5. Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard

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