Such was to come the burden bare,
Within the dwellings dust portiere
Impatient towards the rising dawn
Amassed atop the verdant lawn
(In trepidation shrewd serpents)
Came forth the celebrated hares,
To pleasant calls of carillon.
Meanwhile across the grassy sphere
Slither athwart the rocky pier
With sun arising, to their feast
Made forth the long-feared limbless beasts
(In mind the succulence of such)
To skirmish hence on old frontier
Unknown, the victor in the least.
And so met on the battle grounds
The rabbits brawled like flies do hounds
It seemed certainly glorious,
The serpents, soon victorious,
(Thereby they struck so readily)
Till sunrise bled its crimson crown,
The hares left limp upon the earth
To death, sent the notorious.
Their innocence to stain the morn
From dwellings home came forth newborns
Long buried from the truth of hate,
Till now they looked on hell's doomed gate,
(Their parents an atrocious sight)
And soon to fight themselves, the scorn,
And soon suffer their own dark fate.
