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The Mythological Zoo - Oliver Herford
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Title: The Mythological Zoo
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Oliver Herford
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Copyright, 1912, by Oliver Herford
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The Mythological Zoo
Medusa
How did Medusa do her hair?
The question fills me with despair.
It must have caused her sore distress
That head of curling snakes to dress.
Whenever after endless toil
She coaxed it finally to coil,
The music of a Passing Band
Would cause each separate hair to stand
On end and sway and writhe and spit,—
She couldn't "do a thing
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