"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals.
Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in
civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and
sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We
patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having
taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err.
For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more
complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions
of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall
never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other
nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners
of the splendour and travail of the earth."
--Henry Beston
The Pekingese
A lion fell in love with a monkey,
And they prayed to Creator above,
To entwine their souls forever,
In a union of love.
The Creator watched them tenderly
And in a little while,
He came to a decision,
And the angels saw him smile.
Then He took the courage of the lion,
And He used the monkey's face
With a pinch of the monkey's mischief,
And lion's main to give it grace.
He used the lion's body shape,
And monkey's fun filled heart
He said "This breed are each of you,
You both have played a part."
"I took the best you have give,
And put you both together,
And created this special little dog,
So your love will live forever."
A lion fell in love with a monkey,
And Creator heard their pleas'
To entwine their souls forever,
So He gave us the Pekinese!!
© Vonnie Pearce.
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