Ye great brown hares, grown madder through the Spring!

Ye birds that utilise your tiny throttles

To make the archways of the forest ring

Or go about your easy house-hunting!

Ye toads! ye axolotls!

Ye happy blighters all, that squeal and squat

And fly and browse where'er the mood entices,

Noting in every hedge or woodland grot

The swelling surge of sap, but noting not

The rise in current prices!