TO SHARP

Now, Sharp, I admit that those troublesome geese

Were the very worst foes for my
early Spring peas,

But I must say I grieve for this

 

gander’s decease,
You remarkably truculent lurcher.

If dogs have a Prophet, a possible
fact,
He surely prescribes how your kin-
dred should act,
4\ And I feel very certain he advo-
cates tact,
. You remarkably truculent lurcher.

 
 

To pull out a feather or so from behind
Would teach even goslings their manners
to mind ;
And a goose to such warnings is never
quite blind,
You remarkably truculent lurcher.