Behold! The mighty "Ely-phunt"!
'Got phour legs down, and noe up phrunt.
In phact - it's a phat, phunny, phunctional nose
Phor picking up peanuts - or used as a hose.

I can't phigger out why his nose is his "trunk"!
Any phool would agree that's "pholderol bunk"!
For, on each other creature - and even a tree,
It's "trunk" is its body, just like you and me.

In a phamous pholk phable phrom phar ophph Bizerte,
A phool "peppered' the phood of an ely-phunt, "Gertie".
Her phollowing "Kerchoo"! phalattened halph of Peru;
'Smashed Cebu, Katnandu, and Timbuctu, too!

An ely-phunt's pregnancy is two years in duration;
It takes PHIPHTEEN months just to lay the foundation!
But the mother must have the most PHEE-rocious phears
Oph "phoaling" an ophphspring with phour phoot ears!

Oph all land-based critters, we all know phor sure -
The ely-phunt manuphactures the most tons of manure.
While phar up above, he devours leaphy tree-things,
Phiercely pheeding below are phat phishworms and seedlings!

He ain't got no phingers, and just little, round "toeses",
but he can tear down a house with his powerphul proboscis.
You say he looks sad" Well, he SHOULD! It's disgracephul!
To have only his NOSE to help pheed him a phacephull!

And there's no phluphphy phur on his phlabby outside,
To spare us the sight of his phrightphul bare hide!
So, I always pheel phunny - and look sorta askance,
When I spy an ely-phunt with no skirt or pants.

But, phor all his dephiciencies of phine phorm and grace -
With that phunnym, phat nose sticking out of his phace -
With two tons of power, and his phierce ivory tusks,
He's inphinitley more gentle and loving than us.

We may laugh in disdain at his unrephined pheatures,
But he forages in harmony with all other creatures.
He eats phorests for breakphast - this huge vegetarian,
But Man KILLS just phor phun - the phiendish barbarian!

So, BEHOLD the phat ely-phunt, with his phunny exterior,
Who restrains his phierce power - unlike MAN, his superior.
And, iph our BRAINS phinish ophph our OWN warpharing race,
May the ELY-PHUNT survive - "plain as the NOSE on his phace"!!

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