The Forest Monster of Oz

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You've got to be taught to hate and fear. You've got to be taught from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear— You've got to be carefully taught!
You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade— You've got to be carefully taught.
You've got to be taught before it's too late, Before you are six or seven or eight, To hate all the people your relatives hate— You've got to be carefully taught!
Love is quite different. It grows by itself.
It will grow like a weed On a mountain of stones; You don't have to feed Or put fat on its bones; It can live on a smile Or a note of a song; It may starve for a while, But it stumbles along, Stumbles along with its banner unfurled, The joy and the beauty, the hope of the world.
—Oscar Hammerstein II
By Bob Evans
(author of Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz, Abducted to Oz , etc.)
and Chris Dulabone
(author of Toto in Oz, The Lunechien Forest of Oz , etc.)