Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-27
The Big Brown Rat That Lives
in Grant Park
He Never Goes Over Look the Lake His Hole in the
Ground Interests Him.

He friendly big rat with deep brown fur like that of
mink He lives Grant Park Perhaps his father mother
was some unusual rat escaped from the close by
You pass his hole at the foot of small the side
of the drive When you watch him he watches you
not down into his hole unless you presume get
close enough to his eyes distinctly.
Then he goes down. but up keeps
between You and him He does like Of
day.
He Is wonderfully active alert and EFFICIENT.
His trail leads from tho foot Of the beside the drive
the andlocksd body Of water upon which the little rowboas
ns at night and stormy days. going the lake when is
satA
His engine Ia his heart the his Transmission
and ignition his lungs his oaburetor and the brain in the
rat skul-as mysterious your bran-s his driver.
He lives happy in his domain doubling
park made for him. little beings believe
made for He quite that the boats passing
by his rathoe the drive NOT inhabited
ngsnt mind created them He agnosic-you can't
him believe anything that he understand and prove
and he not understand prove very much happy
and self satisfied and knows that the yarn about the park
being laid and the drive made purpose fairy story
not to be swallowed by any AaNosT1c rat
He and down his little path lives his
foot Of the looks with contempt the queer gray animals
with bushy tails that live UP the tree day will
his hole with his teeth long, and die convinced that
has not missed anything that life had to offer
You that rat evening you will take the
BILE to visit Grant Park and watch at the right spot
You many rats like him any part of Atlanta
any big city They humans not rodents twoegged and
without fur, but intellectually they, too are rats
They live In their little holes their little runway
They deny what they can't understand and they look
the big lake. which, to human beings walking erect great
mysterious sky Of night with all its beauty and grandeur
Beautiful Lake ALBANIA the brown rat cares nothing
for it.
The down, leaving behind him enough light
the water with deep, dark purple.
The rising fights with pale light against thin
and against the bright memory of the just gone
power blows carrying with
1t. The trees taking the drcariness of winter
In the southwest great planet shines with pure light
When you will have been dead million years that noble light
will shine in that spot and then perhaps will begin
to know and appreciate the lake which they live
the lake Of infinite space and amending time the lake
and planets and nebulae-the lake in which
solar systems the units the Milky Way single
microscopic atoms of life chngng to grain of sand
The brown rat Of Grant Park takes any interest
lake which is few yards from his hoe10000 miles could
separate him from completely And if he did
it would him only drearness
rort too big for his brain too overwhelming for his
We rats that live here do not OUR great lake the eternal
infinite universe in which grain of sand is rolling.
And cosc and rats recoi
that would from
the lake him.
We invent time and space and the clock to comfort
We plan gdsd heaven at the top of nhnity and painful
hell the bottom We bear is We can
not bear to face it, study it and it.
But built to stand straight and look the sky not
forever be human rat living intellectual in the
ground.
The stars that by and coldy
will different centuries 90 by Thew
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