04-20-2016, 10:22 AM
There once was a fox being chased
by a pack of hounds and men on horses.
But being much craftier than hounds
Or men or horses he funnelled them
through thickets of thorns and burrs
that would catch in the coats of the hounds
and on the calves of the horses
and he traipsed them through thick runnels
of muck that matted the fur of the hounds
and splattered the faces and beards of the men.
Just past midday, he came to a meadow
with a great gnarled oak and a small grey wren
perched there and throatily singing
the most beautiful melody. Enchanted
the fox paused to listen. As the wren
was reaching her crescendo, the hounds
broke the treeline and the wren flew
off as the hounds surrounded the fox
and drove him into the ground
with a cacophony of barking.
by a pack of hounds and men on horses.
But being much craftier than hounds
Or men or horses he funnelled them
through thickets of thorns and burrs
that would catch in the coats of the hounds
and on the calves of the horses
and he traipsed them through thick runnels
of muck that matted the fur of the hounds
and splattered the faces and beards of the men.
Just past midday, he came to a meadow
with a great gnarled oak and a small grey wren
perched there and throatily singing
the most beautiful melody. Enchanted
the fox paused to listen. As the wren
was reaching her crescendo, the hounds
broke the treeline and the wren flew
off as the hounds surrounded the fox
and drove him into the ground
with a cacophony of barking.