Elephants and Donkeys How to Win and How to Lose

Poem by Thomas Harrison Humphreys

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My father was an elephant
Yes, that’s right, a pachyderm,
He stood large, proud and colossal
A bull many would affirm.
 
My mother was a donkey
An Equus Asinus indeed
She stood stout as protector
That every wolf her bray would heed.