Sergei Mikhalkov
Elephant-painter.
Elephant-wrote the landscape painter,
But before sending it on opening day,
He invited friends to look at the canvas:
What if you suddenly could not it?
Attention artists, our honored guests!
What kind of criticism now heard it?
Would not it be cruel animal Court?
Overthrown? Or be raised?
Connoisseurs come. The picture elephant discovered
Who's got next, who came closer.
"Well, what - began crocodile --
Landscape good! But Neil, I do not see ... "
"What the Nile is not, in fact there is no great distress --
Said seal .- But where is the snow? Where is the ice? "
"Excuse me! - Surprised Mole .-
There are few things more important than ice!
Forgot garden artist.
"Oink-oink, - noticed Pig --
The picture was a success, friends!
But in terms of us, Pigs
Should be acorns on it. "
All requests received Elephant.
Again, he took over paint
And all our friends to the best of
Elephant brush lands,
Depicted snow and ice,
And Neil, and oak, and garden,
And even honey!
(In case you suddenly Bear
Will come now to look ...)
Picture of an elephant is ready,
Friends called an artist again.
Guests look at the landscape
And whispered: "Yeralash!"
My friend! not be such an elephant:
Council should, but with the mind!
At all friends not to please,
As only hurt himself.
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