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[Amelie P]

If anyone can tell me the title and poet who wrote the poem comparing a death of a whale to the death of a mouse...PLEASE put me out of my 18 year misery!!

Ms Poulain

[Buenchico]

'Death of a Whale' was written by the Australian poet, John Blight:

When the mouse died, there was a sort of pity;
The tiny, delicate creature made for grief.
Yesterday, instead, the dead whale on the reef
Drew an excited multitude to the jetty.
How must a whale die to wring a tear?
Lugubrious death of a whale; the big
Feast for the gulls and sharks; the tug
Of the tide simulating life still there,
Until the air, polluted, swings this way
Like a door ajar from a slaughterhouse.
Pooh! pooh! spare us, give us the death of a mouse
By its tiny hole; not this in our lovely bay.
-- Sorry, we are, too, when a child dies:
But at the immolation of a race, who cries?


Chris

[Amelie P]

THANK-YOU so much for your answer Buenchico...I've been searching a long time to get this poem. Thanks for your help.

Brilliant!