A hen observed unto her mate, + 

Who was strutting round in state, + 

As roosters do who think they’re great, + 

About egg tariff do not fret. + 

Cheap eggs I’ll give the Yankee folk, + 

For I will lay big double yolk, + 

And very large shell I will fill, + 

And peck a flaw in McKinley Bill. + 

I heard the farmer’s wife one day, + 

These words unto her husband say, + 

There’s nothing on the farm doth pay + 

So well as these our hens do lay. + 

My love for you, my rooster, grows, + 

There’s none can match your morning crow, + 

You crow the hour Chronometer, + 

You weather crow Barometer. + 

But the poor duck it hath sad lack, + 

All it can do it is to quack; + 

Of course the poor thing must regret, + 

It don’t belong into our set. + 

I pity the web-footed things, + 

Who in water love to flap their wings; + 

The reason is of course because + 

They’re not genteel like us with claws. + 

It doth not lay one half the time, + 

We do, but wallows in the slime, + 

On land it is but a squatter, + 

Broad bills, more at home on water. + 