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The dog’s a soloist, and barks ' Only his personal remarks; The cow expresses in her moos Her own, and no one else’3 views; The porker’s grant, the horse’s ; neigh Commits no one In any “way; Only the sheep, qioiesceat but sonporous, ’■■■■■,.- Explains its major premises in chorus. A black-faced veteran gives out The theme In G (or, thereabout); A lamb bleats Answer; and the - rest ' ■ Join in the contrapuntal quest, And with, their Episode and v And Counter-subject tin falsetto). Ring all the changes of the minor key, < That make their melancholy litany. ■ -yrIVHi In the Observer (London).
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6664, 18 July 1928, Page 11
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99Fugue Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6664, 18 July 1928, Page 11
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