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Oh maybe something
shorter after that.

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Really is water.

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Maybe a little poem--

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a little poem called
"The Natural World."

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I got quite involved
in this well for years

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since my father was
a conservationist

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in this environment issue.

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And this is sort of a
short poem that came to me.

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Not I hope after the
issue became so current

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when all the politicians
were sort of bleating

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to get on the bandwagon.

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It's almost as good as law
and order whatever that is.

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Natural world.

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The first part concerns the
blue whale, the largest mammal

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that ever lived.

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And the second part, hawks.

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The Earth is almost around.

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The seas are curved
and hug the Earth.

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Both ends are crowned with ice.

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The great blue whale
swims near the syce,

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his heart is warm and
weighs 2,000 pounds.

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His tongue weighs twice as much.

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He weighs 150 tons.

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There are so few of them left
he often can't find a mate.

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He drags a 6 foot 6 through icy
waters, flukes spread crashing.

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His brain is large enough
for a man to sleep in.

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On Hawk Mountain
in Pennsylvania,

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thousands upon thousands
of hawks in migration

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were slaughtered for pleasure.

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Gone North or South and spring
and fall, Maryland and kestrel,

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peregrine falcon, marsh hawk,
red tailed, sharp tailed,

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sharps shins swains and sock,
golden eagle and osprey,

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slaughtered for pleasure.

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A form of war on
animals I suppose.

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There's a little line
and oddly enough it's

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in a sort of a bad poem by
a good friend of mine named

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John Ingersen.

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He was saying I salute the
monstrous tenderness of whales.

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It's a strange
Blakean thing to say.

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If any of you are interested,
there is a book now

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or I mean a record put out by
the New York Zoological Society

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that has the songs, recorded
songs of the humpback whale,

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the love songs or mating songs.

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And they've broken
them down and found

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that these creatures appear
to actually have a language.

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