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 in Grant Park Perhaps his father mother
unusual rat escaped from the close by.
You pass his hole the of small the side
Of the drive When you watch him he watches you He
go down into his hole presume much and
close enough to his eyes distinctly.
Then he goes down. but up and keeps the
between you and him. He does like miss the end of
day
He Is wonderfully active, alert and EFFICIENT
His trail leads from the foot of the beside the drive
the landloked body Of water which the little rowboats
ne at night and stormy days. going the lake when
safe
HIS engine hts heart the his transmission
and ignition his lungs his crburetor and the brain the
rat skull-as mysterious your brans his driver
He lives happy domain never doubling that the whole
park him. beings believe whole
made for He quite that the boats passing
by his rathoe the drive NOT inhabited and
ngent mind created them. He Is agnoscyou can't make
him believe anything that he not understand and prove
and as he not understand prove very much he happy
and self satisfied rat that the yarn park
being laid and the drive made purpose fairy story
not to be swallowed by any AGNosTIC rat.
He up and down his little path lives his the
foot Of the looks with contempt the queer gray animals
with VI the Will
in his hole with his teeth grown long die he
has not missed anything that life had to offer.
You may that some evening you will take the rou
BILE to visit Grant Park and watch at the right spot
You many rats like him in any part of Atlanta
any big city They humans not rodents woegged and
without fur, but intellectually they too, rats
They live in their little holes and their runways
They deny what they can't understand and they
hio 1ale
mysterious sky of night with all its beauty and grandeur
Beautiful Lake ALBANIA brown rat cares nothing
for it..
The is down. leaving behind him enough light to cover
the water with deep, dark purple.
The rising fights with pale light against thin clouds
and against the bright memory of the just gone wind
full of life and power blows carrying with
1t. The trees taking the drearness 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
is the lake of infinite space and unendng time the lake of
the and planets and nebuaethe lake in which
solar systems the units the Milky Way single
microscopic atoms of life clnging grain of
The brown of Grant Park takes any the
lake which is few yards from his hoe-1o000 miles could
separate him from completely And he did
erest It, 1t would mean to him only drearne horror and
ror too big for his BRAIN overwhelming courage
We that live here do OUR great lake eternal
infinite universe in which grain of sand is rolling
And rats rats we recol
from in and that from
the lake him
We invent time and space and the clock us
We plan gilded heaven at the top of nfny painful
hell the bottom We bear as is We can
not bear to face it, study it and revere it.
But built to stand straight and look sky will not
forever be human rat living intellectual hole in the
ground
The stars that out by and cody
will different the thousands of 90 by They