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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over read more
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
One that is neither flesh not fish.
One that is neither flesh not fish.
The great fishpond (the sea).
The great fishpond (the sea).
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
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How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!
Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive,
And finds that by his strength but vainly he read more
Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive,
And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive;
His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow,
That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw:
Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand,
That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand,
Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut.
And if at first he fail, his second summersaut
He instantly assays and from his nimble ring,
Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling
Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.
Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.
Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
I will not make fish one and flesh of another.
I will not make fish one and flesh of another.