Classic Poem

A Cow with anthrax and the rickets,
Forlornly grazing in the thickets,
Tears off and swallows at a gulp
A leaf-hid hornets' nest of pulp.
The hot-feet creatures they explore
With angry haste her stomachs four,
And render life to that same cow
A fourfold sadder problem now.
An Ostrich, with long whiskered neck,
Begins upon her ear to peck,
And chides her for her melancholy:

MORAL

— The trouble's in yourself , girl, wholly. —