For mateship with the sun, twitched at a sting.

Amazed to find a "cootie" on his wing,

And that the insect dreamed, it was ordained

By race heredity to serve the King—

He shook his plume and azured, unprofained.

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SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON

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In English nature, did Saint George prevail

Over the Dragon? Maybe in the time