A lamb was bleating on the lawn:

“A fig for lambs,” said he; “to-day

I’ll breakfast on a pretty fawn.”

But every pretty fawn that day

Was shelter’d by its careful dam:

So as he could not breakfast there,

He turn’d again to find the lamb.

And though he might have caught a hare

Who hurried off towards her brue;

“Nay think not, silly puss” he cried