The Monkey’s Glue

When the monkey in his madness
      Took the glue to mend his voice,
  ’Twas the crawfish showed his sadness
      That the bluebird could rejoice.

Then the perspicacious parrot
      Sought to save the suicide
  By administering carrot,
      But the monkey merely died.

So the crawfish and the parrot
      Sauntered slowly toward the sea,
  While the bluebird stole the carrot
      And returned the glue to me.

Goldwin Goldsmith.