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 is 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 foot of small tree side
of the drive When you him he watches you
not down into his hole unless much
close enough to see his eyes distinctly
Then he down, but and keeps the tree
you does to miss the of the
day.
he is wonderfully active, alert and EFFICIENT.
His trail leads from the foot of the beside the drive
the andlocked body of upon which the little roboats
lie night and stormy days. going the lake when
His engine heart the are his transmission
and ignition his lungs his cabureto the brain
rat skullas mysterious your brainis his driver
He lives happy his domain doubling
park made him. little beings believe
made for He quite that the boats passing
by ratho the inhabited
Hgent mind created them He agnostic-you can't make
him believe anything that he not understand and
and understand prove very much happy
and self satisfied and knows that the yarn about park
being laid out and the drive made ON purpose is fairy story
not to be swallowed by any AGNosTIC rat.
He up and down his little path lives his
the with contempt queer gray
with bushy tails live UP tree day
his hole with his teeth grown long, die
has missed anything that life had to offer
You may evening you will take trou-
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 rodents twoegged and
without fur, but intellectually they too,
They live their little holes runways
They deny what they understand they
the big lake which, human beings walking erect great
of with all IFS and
Beautiful Lake ALBANIA but the brown rat nothing
for it.
The down, leaving behind him enough light
the water with deep, dark purple.
The rising fights with pale light against thin clouds
and against the bright memory the just gone wind
full of life power blows carrying
it. The trees taking the dreariness of winter
the southwest great planet shines with pure light
you will have been dead million years that noble light
will shine in that spot and then perhaps will begin
and appreciate 1.-The lake which they live.
lake of infinite space and amending time the lake
the stars and planets comets and nebuaethe lake in which
systems the units the Milky Way single
microscopic of life clngng grain of sand.
The brown rat of Grant Park takes any interest the
lake which is few yards from his hole1ooo0 miles could
separate him from completely And he did
would him only drearines
big for his BRAIN overwhelming courage
We that live here do not OUR great lake the eternal
infinite universe in which grain of sand is rolling
And cosmc and less than
from in and horror that brown would reco
the lake him.
We invent time and space and the clock comfort
We plan glded heaven at the top of nfny and painful
hell at the bottom We bear look at can
not bear to face it, study it and revere it.
But built to stand straight and look sky not
forever be human rat living in intellectual the
ground
The that by look down so cody