Rhyme Time

Recasting of a famous nursery rhyme by a well-known author

He who would rodents three

Spare from disaster,

Let him, though blind they be,

Bid them run faster.

There’s naught so cruel in life

Than some foul farmer’s wife

Who wields her carving knife

To maim a mouse tail.

True ‘tis, that lacking pace,

Three mice, unsighted,

Struck thus while giving chase

Now languish blighted.

So, pilgrims, armed with knives,

Forewarned of farmers’ wives,

Strike down whoever strives

To maim a mouse tail.