Doggerel / George Dance

Doggerel

The rowdy dogs that frolic in the park
may run, and jump, and gambol playfully;
but all dogs, when they spy a likely tree,
must lift a nether leg and leave a mark.
Some dogs must growl at every bird and frog,
and some must leave their stools upon the street,
and some must bark at every other dog,
and some must snap at every poor man's feet.

A man who's being dogged must learn to fight,
to put the boots to any many cur
that=92s troubled by the fleas amidst its fur
and make the mongrel yowl! Then doggie might
run off to find a more defenceless bone
and leave the weary traveller alone.