Limb-Slungs & Beam-Shanks

This illustration seems to come from The Burke Museum, but alas I have no idea who drew it.

Limb-Slungs & Beam-Shanks

Some daddy-longlegs are spiders in cellars,
And some daddy-longlegs are leg-craning flies.
Some are strange scorpings who walk in the harvest,
But all have more leg than they should for their size.
Some daddy-longlegs are tip-toeing fellers,
And some daddy-longlegs are mummies-on-stilts.
Some have evolved from their cousins the farthest,
But all are as lanky as when they were built.

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