HUD HUDSON

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That's not me.  (I'm over here.)  It's Xerxes in her best Sunday dress.
This week she has been reading Walter de la Mare's The Three Royal Monkeys.

Here is the sad little goodbye song -- The Mulgars' Farewell:

 

 

Far away in Nanga-noon

Lived an old and grey Baboon

Ah-mi Sulani!

Once a Prince among his kind,

Now forsaken, left behind,

Feeble, lonely, all but blind:

Sulani, ghar magleer.

 

Peaceful Tishnar came by night,

In the moonbeams cold and white;

Ah-mi, Sulani!

"Far away from Nanga-noon,

Thou old and grey Baboon;

Is a journey for thee soon!"

Sulani, ghar magleer.

 

"Be not frightened, shut thine eye;

Comfort take, nor weep, nor sigh;

Solitary Tishnar's nigh!"

Sulani, ghar magleer.

 

Old Baboon, he gravely did

All that peaceful Tishnar bid;

Ah-mi, Sulani!

In the darkness cold and grim

Drew his blanket over him;

Closed his old eyes, sad and dim:

Sulani, ghar magleer.

 

Talaheeti sul magloon

Olgar, ulgar Nanga-noon;

Ah-mi, Sulani!

Tishnar sootli maltmahee,

Ganganareez soongalee,

Manni Mulgar sang suwhee:

Sulani, ghar magleer.

 

 

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Any comments you might have for Xerxes

can be sent to Hud[dot]Hudson[at]wwu[dot]edu.

I will see to it that she receives them.

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Last week Xerxes was reading John Collier's His Monkey Wife

The week before Xerxes was reading Lois Lowry's The Giver

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