The site was a fair one, the weather so fine, }

That even a quadruped thought it divine. }

To this wild grassy spot, on the long look’d for day,

Merry parties of beasts made the best of their way;

There were bears, long and short-legg’d, black, brown, grey, and white,

From different parts, to enjoy the fine sight.

The polar bear came in a sledge, and she said

That the journey had caused a sharp pain in her head:

For, although well protected from snout to her tail,

She thought she had got a slight “coup-de-soleil;”