You may sing of the song of the cuckoo<\/p>\n
Say ol\u00e9 to the lay of the lark<\/p>\n
You may thrill to the rill<\/p>\n
Of the nightingale\u2019s trill<\/p>\n
Which awakens your heart after dark,<\/p>\n
But the song that you never will hear of<\/p>\n
And alas and alack how I wish<\/p>\n
That somebody somewhere would sing of<\/p>\n
The glorious song of the fish.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Whose heart hasn\u2019t stirred at the call of a bird<\/p>\n
Or the purr of a cat that\u2019s well fed?<\/p>\n
And if the lone strain of a far distant train<\/p>\n
Doesn\u2019t move you, then frankly you\u2019re dead.<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s one thing you never will hear of<\/p>\n
A song that is long and delish<\/p>\n
From the soul of the sole<\/p>\n
In the sea or the bowl,<\/p>\n
The heart breaking song of the fish.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Oh maybe they hail the young dolphin<\/p>\n
Or tell a tall tale of a whale,<\/p>\n
But nobody sings of herrings and things<\/p>\n
Like whiting, or sea bass or snail.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
No one sang of the pang of the penguin<\/p>\n
As he sat on the long winter ice,<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no news of the mews of the poor kangaroos<\/p>\n
As they waits for their mates to be nice.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s only the birds<\/p>\n
Who get all the words<\/p>\n
Those poets go on and on,<\/p>\n
For the rest of the animal kingdom<\/p>\n
Lyrics and songs there are none.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
c) Eric Idle\u00a0 2013<\/p>\n
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